Carol Upadhya

Reengineering India

Work, Capital, and Class in an Offshore Economy

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Produktbeschreibung

The book explores India's post-liberalization transformations through an anthropological study of the software industry. It examines the origins of software capital, the shaping of the Indian IT workforce, the new management practices and forms of work introduced in IT workspaces, and the connections between IT and the middle class.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 145mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780199461486
• ISBN-10: 0199461481
• Artikelnr.: 47865060

Autorenporträt

Carol Upadhya is Professor in the School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Software Capital and the New India
2. Compiling the Indian IT Workforce
3. In the Software Factory
4. Soft Capitalism Comes to India
5. Encultured Identities, Cultivated Selves
6. Codes of Class
Conclusion: Whatâs New about the âNew Indiaâ?
References
Index
About the Author