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How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually? The answer is the industry's flexible labor management system - a flexibility widely regarded as the modus operandi of global capitalism today. "Global "Body Shopping"" explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are constructed and sustained through concrete human actions. Drawing on in-depth field research in southern India and in Australia, and folding an ethnography into a political economy examination, Xiang Biao offers a richly detailed analysis of the India-based global labor management practice known as "body shopping."In this practice, a group of consultants - body shops - in different countries works together to recruit IT workers. Body shops then farm out workers to clients as project-based labor; and upon a project's completion they either place the workers with a different client or "bench" them to await the next placement. Thus, labor is managed globally to serve volatile capital movement. Underpinning this practice are unequal socioeconomic relations on multiple levels. While wealth in the New Economy is created in an increasingly abstract manner, everyday realities - stock markets in New York, benched IT workers in Sydney, dowries in Hyderabad, and women and children in Indian villages - sustain this flexibility.

一个世纪前，梁漱溟先生出版了现代哲学史上的名作《东西文化及其哲学》，开创了中国哲学与西方哲学和印度哲学进行比较研究的先河。 一个世纪以来，比较哲学取得了巨大的进展，其中中国哲学家做出了巨大的贡献，《中西印哲学导论》就是硕果之一。作者张祥龙教授多年来在比较哲学研究领域进行了卓越的探索，作为国内和国际上多文明比较哲学的代表性学者，为深化哲学的理解、建构各文明哲学之间的对话，带来了诸多启发。 《中西印哲学导论》是一本带有普及性的哲学导论，按照哲学领域中重要的一些主题阐发了中国、西方和印度三种哲学的观点，比如哲学的定义、终极实在、真理和知识、道德哲学、政治哲学、美学等，在比照和互文中呈现不同文明的哲学特质。