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9780415456807

In an Outpost of the Global Economy: Work and Workers in India's Information Technology Industry

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415456807

  • ISBN10:

    0415456800

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2013-11-07
  • Publisher: Routledge India

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"The major themes of this volume are how cultures at work and beyond the workplace are mutually constituted and imbricated in one another, and the diverse ways in which the 'global' is instantiated in the 'local' in the context of hi-tech led globalisation in India. This study makes a significant contribution to the sociology of work and industry in India, and more broadly to the anthropological and sociological literature on globalisation." "The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of sociology, anthropology, management, labour studies, information technology, and business and organisation studies, apart from the general reader."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Outposts of the global information economy : work and workers in India's outsourcing industryp. 9
Producing the knowledge professional : gendered geographies of alienation in India's new high-tech workplacep. 50
Betwixt and between? : exploring mobilities in a global workplace in Indiap. 76
Management of culture and management through culture in the Indian software outsourcing industryp. 101
The scientific imperative to be positive : self-reliance and success in the modern workplacep. 136
Software work in India : a labour process viewp. 162
Empowerment and constraint : women, work and the family in Chennai's software industryp. 190
'Serviced from India' : the making of India's global youth workforcep. 211
Work organisation, control and 'empowerment' : managing the contradictions of call centre workp. 235
Editorsp. 263
Contributorsp. 264
Indexp. 267
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