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题名/责任者:

Invisible labour : support service workers in India's information technology industry / Indranil Chakraborty.

出版发行项:

London : Routledge, 2022.

ISBN:

9780367551384

载体形态项:

xiv, 175 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

个人责任者:

Chakraborty, Indranil, author.

论题主题:

Information services industry-India.

论题主题:

Information services industry-Employees.

论题主题:

Building-service employees-India-Social conditions.

论题主题:

Migrant labor-India-Social conditions.

中图法分类号:

F249.351

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

摘要附注:

"This book investigates the life, working conditions, and urban experiences of support-service workers, such as janitors, security guards, culinary workers and carpool drivers in the Information Technology (IT) sector of India. Largely omitted from academic discourse, support-service workers are crucial to the Indian IT industry. Drawing on interviews with such workers in seven Indian cities with a large concentration of software service companies, this volume: Uses quantitative and qualitative analyses to map and assess their responses to migration from rural occupations to a modern urban employment setting; Explores the everyday grind of migrant workers in the context of the homogenizing effects of globalization in an alienating urban environment, and discusses how their dislodgment from the structures of rural life -- gender and caste roles -- has placed them in a space of contestation between traditions, and the opportunities and challenges offered by digital society in the form of freedom, individualism, flexibility and innovation; Traces the evolution of new areas of class, and identity formations as well as the hegemonic relations within that ethos imposed by contractors and corporations. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of sociology and social anthropology, urban studies, development studies, labour studies, social exclusion, and South Asian studies"--

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