The Dialectical Meaning of Offshored Work : Neoliberal Desires and Labour Arbitrage in Post-Socialist Romania.

Intro -- The Dialectical Meaning of Offshored Work: Neoliberal Desires and Labour Arbitrage in Post-socialist Romania -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction The Post-socialist Workforce in the Global Offshoring Networks -- 1 The Post-socialist Workforce in Global Production -- 2 Offshoring Studies -- 3 Social Reproduction and Offshoring -- 4 Ethnography of Foreign Investment -- 5 The Investor and the Region -- 6 The Structure of this Book -- 1 Romania's Systemic Transformation: Chaos, Austerity and Imposed Neoliberal Reform -- 1 Ad-hoc Transition (1989-1996) -- 2 The Period of Market Orientation (1996-2004) -- 3 The Period of European Integration (2004-2009) -- 4 Global Economic Crisis and Neoliberal Rule (2009-2014) -- 5 Conclusions -- 2 The Arrival: Global Assemblage of Neoliberal Production -- 1 Nokia Village Plans -- 2 Factory Closure in Germany -- 3 The Opening -- 3 A Journey onto the Shop Floor: Cultural Specificity of the Offshored Plant and Workforce Adaptation -- 1 Joining a Capitalist Workplace -- 2 Cultural Specificity of the Workplace and Worker Socialisation -- 3 Workplace Adaptation -- 4 Cultural Specificity and the Offshored Workplace -- 4 Shop Floor Culture and Routine Production Process -- 1 Lubricating the Taylorist Workplace -- 2 Limiting Control and Political Intimacies at Work -- 3 Epistemic Holes, Humour and Storytelling -- 4 Conclusions -- 5 Familial Involvement in Offshored Labour -- 1 Prior to Investment -- 2 Mutual Dependencies -- 3 Emancipatory Forces -- 4 Intergenerational Exceptionalism -- 5 Mutual Dependency in a Broader Context -- 6 Employee Reactions to the Plant Closure -- 1 The Good Investor's Bad Decisions -- 2 Social Mobilization -- 3 What the Plant Changed -- 7 Coping with Loss: Local Agency and Offshored Labour -- 1 The Secrecy of the Contract -- 2 Smartphone Controversy.

3 Romania in the Global Economy -- 4 The New Investor -- 5 Discussion: National Reaction to the Issue of Relocation -- Conclusions Labour Arbitrage, Modernity and the Realities of Offshored Labour -- Bibliography -- Index.

The Dialectical Meaning of Offshored Work analyzes how offshoring investments function as a platform for intercultural encounters among corporate actors and local populations of hosting communities.

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