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ERIC Number: EJ1063948
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-1476-7724
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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.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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