Dialectical Meaning of Offshored Work

Miłosz Miszczyński, Ph.D, is an Assistant Professor at Kozminski University, Poland. He conducts research in the fields of critical studies of organisations and sociology of labour. His publications include publications in Organization, Critical Sociology and European Journal of Cultural Studies.

• 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 3 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