The Dialectical Meaning of Offshored Work: Neoliberal Desires and Labour Arbitrage in Post-Socialist Romania

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The Dialectical Meaning of Offshored Work analyzes how offshoring investments function as a platform for intercultural encounters among corporate actors and local populations of hosting communities. The book synthesizes ethnographic research, media reviews, and policy analysis to examine how localized forms of offshoring production occur in social, political and economic processes to highlight dilemmas connected to mobility of capital, modernization, social equality and capitalist expansion. The book delineates the complex interplay between Western neoliberalism and a transforming post-socialist Europe, to show the complex ways in which offshoring production infiltrates local communities. Analyzing issues of labor, work and employment, this book engages with current scholarship on critical management, sociology, anthropology, and East European studies.

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Miosz Miszczyski, 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.