Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgement -- The Post-socialist Workforce in the Global Offshoring Networks -- Romania’s Systemic Transformation: Chaos, Austerity and Imposed Neoliberal Reform -- The Arrival: Global Assemblage of Neoliberal Production -- A Journey onto the Shop Floor: Cultural Specificity of the Offshored Plant and Workforce Adaptation -- Shop Floor Culture and Routine Production Process -- Familial Involvement in Offshored Labour -- Employee Reactions to the Plant Closure -- Coping with Loss: Local Agency and Offshored Labour -- Labour Arbitrage, Modernity and the Realities of Offshored Labour -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.

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.