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dc.contributor.authorJoseph, Jerome
dc.contributor.authorJagannathan, Srinath
dc.contributor.authorSelvaraj, Patturaja
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-22T06:41:12Z
dc.date.available2017-06-22T06:41:12Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationJagannathan S., Selvaraj P., Joseph J. (2016). The funeralesque as the experience of workers at the margins of international business: Seven Indian narratives. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 12(3), 282-305.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11718/19455
dc.description.abstractPurpose: This paper aims to show that the experience of workers on the margins of international business is akin to the funeralesque. The funeralesque is understood as the appropriation of the value generated by workers across the production networks of international business. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing from the engagement with crematorium workers, the narratives of workers are articulated, describing the insecurities and injustices experienced by them. The authors draw from six-month-long qualitative engagement with seven workers in a crematorium in Ahmedabad, India. Findings: The experience of marginal subjects provides important insights into how international business, in conjunction with states, structures inequality for marginal subjects. Precariousness, social exclusion, low wages and subjectivities of humiliation are the experiences of marginal subjects. The reproduction of marginality in globalising cities is an important element of the funeralesque through which extraction and re-distribution of value across international networks is legitimised. Practical implications: In understanding international business as the funeralesque, the authors demystify the power relations constituted by it. The authors provide a metaphor for dethroning the legitimacy of international business and indicate that its modern practices are similar to the practices of value appropriation that occur in a funeral. Originality/value: The authors develop the metaphor of the funeralesque to gain insights into the experiences of workers on the margins of international business. The authors are, thus, able to theorise the underbelly of globalising cities in a poetic, subversive way.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherEmerald Group Publishing Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectCritical managementen_US
dc.subjectInternational businessen_US
dc.subjectLabouren_US
dc.titleThe funeralesque as the experience of workers at the margins of international business: Seven Indian narrativesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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