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| List of Illustrations, Tables, Boxes | |
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| Acronyms | |
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| Prologue: A Stranger's Adventure | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Body Shopping: Brief Overview | |
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| Ethnicization, Individualization, and Transnationalization | |
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| Structure of the Book | |
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| The Global Niche for Body Shopping | |
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| "Financial Democracy" and the Virtual Shortage of IT Labor | |
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| War for IT Talent and Wall of Regulation | |
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| Producing "IT People" in Andhra | |
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| "D-Shops" and "T-Shops" | |
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| "Have Lands in Andhra, Have a House in Hyderabad, and Have a Job in America" | |
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| Producing IT People as a Family Business | |
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| Selling "Bodies" and Selling Jobs | |
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| Fee-Paying Workers and Body Shops in Hyderabad | |
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| India as the Nexus of Global Body Shopping | |
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| Business of "Branded Labor" in Sydney | |
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| "Marketing and Development Are Totally Different Stories" | |
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| "Only Indians Can Handle Indians" | |
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| Overlapping Businesses | |
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| Same Roof, Different Hats | |
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| Agent Chains and Benching | |
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| Differentiated Circles | |
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| "Indians Are the Most Dangerous Ones!" | |
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| Overbooking Seats on the Bench | |
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| Compliant Bodies? | |
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| Interlocks between Body Shops and Community Associations | |
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| Workers as Intermediaries | |
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| Relations among Workers: Support Yes, Solidarity No | |
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| The Way Out | |
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| The World System of Body Shopping | |
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| The United States of America: "Mecca for IT People" | |
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| Global Gateways: Singapore, Malaysia, and the Middle East | |
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| U.S. Satellites: The Caribbean and Latin America | |
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| New Frontiers: "Sind Sie Inder?" and "Is There a German Dream?" | |
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| Ending Remarks: The "Indian Triangle" in the Global IT Industry | |
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| The Remembered Fieldwork Sites: Impressions and Images | |
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| Biographical Index of Informants | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |