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The Making of the "Precarious" Examining Indian Immigrant IT Workers in Canada and Their Transnational Networks with Body Shops in India
Maitra, Srabani
Globalisation, Societies and Education, v13 n2 p194-209 2015
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.
Descriptors: Indians, Immigrants, Information Technology, Foreign Nationals, Employment, Skilled Workers, Barriers, Gender Differences, Racial Differences, Labor Force, Flexible Scheduling, Temporary Employment, Role, Foreign Countries, Networks, Lifelong Learning, Qualitative Research, Semi Structured Interviews
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