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050		4	_aHD2365 .M579 2019
100	1		_aMiszczyński, Miłosz.
245	1	4	_aThe Dialectical Meaning of Offshored Work : _bNeoliberal Desires and Labour Arbitrage in Post-Socialist Romania.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aBoston : _bBRILL, _c2019.
264		4	_c©2019.
300			_a1 online resource (199 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aStudies in Critical Social Sciences Series ; _vv.146
505	0		_aIntro -- 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.
505	8		_a3 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.
520			_aThe 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aOffshore outsourcing-Social aspects.
650		0	_aContracting out.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aMiszczyński, Miłosz _tThe Dialectical Meaning of Offshored Work _dBoston : BRILL,c2019 _z9789004411685
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aStudies in Critical Social Sciences Series
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5884254 _zClick to View
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