The Dialectical Meaning of Offshored Work

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