全球“猎身”：世界信息产业和印度的技术劳工

by Xiang Biao, 项飙, 王迪 (Translator)

为什么印度的整体社会发展缓慢，而软件出口却独领风骚？为什么美国的IT公司不断裁人，同时又引进外国雇员？作者基于在印度、澳大利亚和马来西亚长达两年的人类学实地调查写作此书，指出其中关键在于IT产业中的“猎身”体系。它是指一个以印度为中心的全球化劳动力配置和管理体系。

Genres: Anthropology, Ethnography, School, Nonfiction

280 pages, Paperback

First published November 6, 2006

Reviews

[Tara · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed reading this book. The book is not just a detailed description of the micro to the macro to the global of the development of an Indian labor force of technology workers. The book is also the story of the anthropologist, Xiang Biao, an Oxford anthropology student, who lives with the Indians as they make their way through the network of tech schools in the the south of India, to the recruiting outfits in Australia. The goal is to get a job on a project in the United States. An interesting outcome of this system is that the recruiting of bodies for projects becomes more lucrative than the technical expertise required for the projects. The book is short and well written.

[Kennedy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an interesting empirical and ethnographic analysis of "body-shopping" practices in regards to the increasingly globalized, transnational Indian IT economy. The connections between fostered social relations and the abstraction/financialization of capital, alongside an analysis of the international division of labor, were quite illuminating. However, the normative critiques -- and especially the forms of systemic exploitation and coercion -- accompanying this system were lacking (essentially reserved for a 5 page epilogue). Further explication regarding the gender, racial, and class inequalities embedded in the IT industry would behoove the work the Xiang is trying to achieve.

[thinkingape · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best. Solid work. Shocked by the close tie between NRI(non-resident Indian) and the dowry they command.

[Reading · Rating 5 out of 5]

《全球“猎身”》（中）项飚。

[繁邦 · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very interesting ethnography about Indian IT workers overseas.

[Lisa · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had to read it for my anthro class. While an interesting topic I did not know about, the book was kinda bland.

[Yida · Rating 4 out of 5]

the proface is even better than the body itself

[Justin Xing · Rating 4 out of 5]

非传统民族志写法的人类学论文。民族/个人/全球的相互交错下，印度的种姓阶级性别不平等，使得社会剩余价值集中到一小部分精英阶级，因此造就了“印度IT”。

种姓阶级性别问题没有展开讲，也并不是这本书的重点。对于本身不太了解印度风物志的读者来说，是一本不错的”由点及面”的书。

[Abby W · Rating 4 out of 5]

读了好久，序言和结语部分写得坦诚有温度。最感兴趣的部分是：在与劳力行不合理的合同中，IT工人为什么会顺从？一方面是信息差，另一方面也是受限于贫瘠的关系网络与印度教影响下的“以和为贵”。即使知道不合理，对他们来说也无从选择，只好认命，这种“逆来顺受”让我想到了我们一部分的中国人。