
Reengineering India
Work, Capital, and Class in an Offshore Economy
Carol Upadhya(Author)
OUP India (Publisher)
Published on 7. July 2016
Book
Hardback
359 pages
978-0-19-946148-6 (ISBN)
Description
The march towards a 'new India' began with its entry onto the global stage as a rising economic power, impelled by liberalization policies and the forces of globalization. The success of Indias information technology (IT) industry symbolizes these larger developments, yet we lack a critical understanding of the wider social and cultural reverberations of this phenomenon. Reengineering India explores India's post-liberalization transformation through the lens of the software industry.
This book views the IT industry as a key site where new identities, aspirations, and social imaginaries are being created and circulated. It examines the origins and organization of software capital, the production of the Indian IT workforce, the introduction of new forms of work and management, and the connections between software and the new middle class. The author argues that the software industry has been central to India's post-liberalization refashioning, yet it remains deeply embedded in older structures of inequality and modes of accumulation.
An anthropological account of the relationship between work, class, capital, and culture in Indias new economy, this book is essential reading for thinking about the future of the post-IT revolution nation.
This book views the IT industry as a key site where new identities, aspirations, and social imaginaries are being created and circulated. It examines the origins and organization of software capital, the production of the Indian IT workforce, the introduction of new forms of work and management, and the connections between software and the new middle class. The author argues that the software industry has been central to India's post-liberalization refashioning, yet it remains deeply embedded in older structures of inequality and modes of accumulation.
An anthropological account of the relationship between work, class, capital, and culture in Indias new economy, this book is essential reading for thinking about the future of the post-IT revolution nation.
Reviews / Votes
Reengineering India's detailed scrutiny of the many facets of life in the IT industry proves an invaluable resource for those interested in IT specifically but also those interested in globalized work-places, post-liberalization India and theories of cultural capital. * Lars Olav Aaberg, The Indian Journal of Labour Economics *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-946148-6 (9780199461486)
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Person
Carol Upadhya is Professor in the School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru, India.
Author
, Professor in the School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru, India.
Content
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: Whatas New about the aNew Indiaa?; References; Index; About the Author