The Rise of the Information Technology Society in India : Capitalism and the Construction of a Vulnerable Workforce

• Autore: Deb Roy Suddhabrata
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 pages)
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Rise of the Information Technology Society in India
• ISBN: 9783031581281
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910872192503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Dynamics of Virtual Work Series