Maitra, S. (2015) The making of the ‘precarious’: examining Indian immigrant IT workers in Canada and their transnational networks with body shops in India. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 13(2), pp. 194-209. (doi: 10.1080/14767724.2014.934070)
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Abstract
Since the 1990s, temporary staffing agencies have been playing a key role in managing and supplying a ready pool of skilled workers to the global IT market. Yet, such agencies often regulate their workforce to maintain flexible, low-cost and accommodating workers. Due to continuing racial and gendered barriers, many immigrant Indian IT professionals living in Canada are increasingly depending on many such India-based staffing agencies (body shops) to get into IT employment globally. Such associations I argue are turning the workers into a self-regulated and precarious workforce subjected to severe regulations and flexible work patterns of the agencies.
Item Type: | Articles |
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Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Maitra, Professor Srabani |
Authors: | Maitra, S. |
College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Education > Social Justice Place and Lifelong Education College of Social Sciences > School of Education > Culture, Literacies, Inclusion & Pedagogy |
Journal Name: | Globalisation, Societies and Education |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
ISSN: | 1476-7724 |
ISSN (Online): | 1476-7732 |
Published Online: | 04 November 2014 |
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