Indranil Chakraborty

Invisible Labour

Support Service Workers in India's Information Technology Industry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9780367551384
• ISBN-10: 0367551381
• Artikelnr.: 68715608

Autorenporträt

Indranil Chakraborty works as adjunct faculty at Lawrence Kinlin School of Business, Fanshawe College, London, Ontario, Canada. He has a PhD in information and media studies from the University of Western Ontario and works in the areas of media, technology and labour. He has teaching experience in media and communication studies, politics and economics at the University of Western Ontario and Simon Fraser University. He has also worked over a decade as a journalist with prominent South Asian publications such as The Indian Express and The Financial Express, reporting on public policy, economic issues and information technology in India.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Technology and Change: Ancillary Workers in the Indian IT
Industry 2. Flat World, Globalization and Indian IT 3. Collection,
Interpretation and Analysis of Data 4. Time, Place and Space 5. Women
Workers' Narratives of Precarious Work and Social Struggle 6. Conflicts and
Adjustments: An Anatomy of Changing Social Relations 7. Labour Process,
Control and Discipline 8. Conclusion: Whistling into the Typhoon