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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367176130 ISBN 13: 9780367176136

Publisher: Routledge India, 2019

Synopsis

While much has been written on the growth of information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services in India, little is known about the people who work in these industries, about the nature of the work itself, and about its wider social and cultural ramifications. The papers in this collection combine empirical research with theoretical insight to fil

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Carol Upadhya is Fellow at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India. Her research interests focus on contemporary Indian society and culture, globalisation, economic anthropology, the history of anthropology and sociology in India, and anthropological theory. Her most recent work has been on work, workers and entrepreneurs in the Indian information technology industry. Earlier, she has written on the social impact of the Green Revolution and the emergence of a new business class in coastal Andhra Pradesh.

A.R. Vasavi is Professor at the Social of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. Her earlier research work focused on the sociology of India and she is the author of a book, Harbingers of Rain: Land and Life in South India (1999). In addition to coordinating a project on elementary education in Karnataka, she is working on an edited volume of translations of Kannada writings on society and culture and a volume of her collected writings on agrarian change, sociology of education and the new cultural economies of globalising India.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge India
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367176130
• ISBN 13: 9780367176136
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Upadhya Carol, Vasavi A.R.