02921nam 22003733 450 991087219250332120240722084506.09783031581281(CKB)32822206000041(MiAaPQ)EBC31516621(Au-PeEL)EBL31516621(EXLCZ)993282220600004120240722d2024 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Rise of the Information Technology Society in India Capitalism and the Construction of a Vulnerable Workforce1st ed.Cham :Springer International Publishing AG,2024.©2024.1 online resource (223 pages)Dynamics of Virtual Work Series9783031581274 Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: The IT Society in India, Its Inhabitants, and Their Lives of Desperation -- Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: The Exploitative Nature of the IT Spaces -- Introduction: Numerous Marginalities, One Sector -- Liberal Islamophobia in Action -- The Social Stagnancy of Dalit Techies -- Patriarchy and the IT Workers -- References -- Chapter 3: Social Reproduction and the IT Women -- Introduction: The Importance of Social Solidarity Structures -- Time, Space, and Social Reproduction -- Social Practices, Reproductive Labour, and the Gendered Urban Reality -- Neoliberal Control Over the IT Women -- References -- Chapter 4: The Social Construction of Managerial Solutions to Political Problems -- Introduction: Productivity Enhancement Measures and the Workers -- Well-Being: A Contested Terrain -- Strategies for Well-Being: Questioning Normality -- Employee Perspectives Matter! -- References -- Chapter 5: The Invisible Information Technology Workers -- Introduction -- Keeping the IT Homes in Order -- 'Securing' the Techies -- Cleaning the Hi-Tech Spaces -- The Foundations of the Metro Middle Class -- References -- Chapter 6: The Arrival of the 'Metro' Middle Class -- Introduction: IT Hubs as Urban Middle-Class Spaces -- The Traditional Indian Middle Class -- The Metro Middle Class Comes Into Being -- References -- Chapter 7: Techie Unionisation in the IT Society -- Introduction: Unionising the Techies -- Structures of Techie Resistance -- 'Middle-Class' Workers and the Transformation of the Workers' Identity -- References -- Chapter 8: Workers, Middle-Class Employees, Professionals? No, just the Working Poor! -- References -- Index.Dynamics of Virtual Work SeriesDeb Roy Suddhabrata1745741MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910872192503321The Rise of the Information Technology Society in India4177116UNINA