Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Gender, Transmigration, and Citizenship -- 1 Transmigrants: Identity, Nationalism, and Bridge Building -- 2 Engineer Brides and H-1B Grooms: Visas, Marriage, and Family Formation -- 3 Trans…
"Made to Work analyses the conditions of mobile knowledge work (MKW) in contemporary worklives, contrasting and drawing parallels among three highly significant sectors of the Knowledge Economy: academia, Information Communication Technology (ICT) management, and digital creativ…
"Made to Work analyses the conditions of mobile knowledge work (MKW) in contemporary worklives, contrasting and drawing parallels among three highly significant sectors of the Knowledge Economy: academia, Information Communication Technology (ICT) management, and digital creativ…
"Made to Work analyses the conditions of mobile knowledge work (MKW) in contemporary worklives, contrasting and drawing parallels among three highly significant sectors of the Knowledge Economy: academia, Information Communication Technology (ICT) management, and digital creativ…
"Gurus, Hired Guns and Warm Bodies tells the story of how the market for temporary professionals operates from the perspective of the contractors who do the work, the managers who employ them, the permanent employees who work beside them, and the staffing agencies who broker dea…
Introduction: Technology and change : ancillary workers in the Indian IT industry -- Flat world, globalization and Indian IT -- Collection, interpretation and analysis of data -- Time, place and space -- Women workers' narratives of precarious work and social struggle -- Conflic…
"This book investigates the life, working conditions, and urban experiences of support-service workers, such as janitors, security guards, culinary workers and carpool drivers in the Information Technology (IT) sector of India. Largely omitted from academic discourse, support-se…
"This book investigates the life, working conditions, and urban experiences of support-service workers, such as janitors, security guards, culinary workers and carpool drivers in the Information Technology (IT) sector of India. Largely omitted from academic discourse, support-se…
Case studies in miscommunication -- A survey of, and about, professionals -- T-shaped data scientists -- Data scientists and organizations -- Final thoughts.
Despite the excitement around ""data science, "" ""big data, "" and ""analytics, "" the ambiguity of these terms has led to poor communication between data scientists and organizations seeking their help. In this report, authors Harlan Harris, Sean Murphy, and Marck Vaisman exam…