SOAN 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Global Arena, Afro-Caribbean, Wage Labour
19 Jan 2016
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As offshore processors they are linked with service workers in the republic, the us and jamaica for airline tickets, graphic novels, scientific journals and insurance companies. This expanding company alone hires close to 1,000 most of who are all women. These women work 8h shifts at video display terminals and are constantly monitored for productivity and accuracy to easy listening music. This study explores the convergences and distinctions between. Traditional industrial settings across the global assembly line and these new informatics operations. I take as my point of departure three broadly interconnected questions. First, how is translationalization experienced, and in turn shaped by social actors in the specific context of barbados second, what does. Informatics mean along the continuum of the global assembly line? are these new transnational work=places best characterized as. Electronic sweatshops, as their critics claim, or, instead, as an expansion of white-collar services and a source of development for.
