A. Aneesh

Virtual Migration

The Programming of Globalization

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Produktbeschreibung

An ethnographic analysis of the work of computer programmers in India working for the U.S. software industry illuminates the growing phenomenon of "virtual migration"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780822336693
• ISBN-10: 0822336693
• Artikelnr.: 21385933

Autorenporträt

A. Aneesh is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Of Code and Capital 1
2. Programming Globalization: Visions and Revisions 14
3. Body Shopping 37
4. Virtual Migration 67
5. Actions Scripts: Rule of the Code 100
6. Code as Money 133
7. Migrations: Nations, Capital, and the State 153
Appendix A: A Note on Method 165
Appendix B: Tables 171
Notes 175
Bibliography 179
Index 191