Work and Life in the Global Economy

Edited by Debra Howcroft and Helen Richardson

in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan

Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-27797-7
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction

Debra Howcroft and Helen Richardson

Ch 2 Women as Knowledge Workers: From the Telegraph to the Computer

Alison Adam

Ch 3 Respectability and Flexibility in the Neoliberal Service Economy

Carla Freeman

Ch 4 ‘Are you married?’ Exploring Gender in a Global Workplace in India

Marisa D’Mello

Ch 5 Gendered Hierarchies in Transnational Call Centres in India

Kiran Mirchandani

Ch 6 Domestic Labour — The Experience of Work in India’s Other Call Centre Industry

Phil Taylor, Premilla D’Cruz, Ernesto Noronha and Dora Scholarios

Ch 7 ‘Caring’ Professionals: Global Migration and Gendered Cultural Economy

Shoba Arun

Ch 8 The Crisis of Care, International Migration, and Public Policy

Lourdes Benería

Ch 9 Reflections on Gender and Pay Inequalities in the Contemporary Service Economy

Diane Perrons

Ch 10 Clerks, Cashiers, Customer Carers: Women’s Work in European Services

Juliet Webster

Ch 11 An ICT Skills Model of Inclusion: Contemporary Distortions of Equity in British Network Engineer Training

Hazel Gillard

Ch 12 The Isolated Professional: Conflict, Fragmentation and Overload in UK Financial Services

Leo McCann

Ch 13 Cultural Constraints: Japanese Mothers Working in a Multinational Corporation

Barbara Crump and Rachel Crump

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