Prospects for trade unions and labour organisations in India's IT and Ites industries

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ID21189755
AuthorsAntony Stevens (0000-0003-2079-3397), Andrew Stevens Andrew Stevens, Vincent Mosco (0000-0002-7799-6307), Vincent Mosco Vincent Mosco
Year2010
Volume4
Issue2
Publication date2010-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueWork Organisation Labour & Globalisation (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1745-641X • E-ISSN: 1745-6428
PublisherPluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.13169/workorgalaboglob.4.2.0039
OpenAlexW2755008306
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited10

Drawing on interviews conducted with trade unionists and labour activists in 2008, this article addresses nascent unions and professional associations operating in India's information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services (ITES) industries. This work builds upon the literature that is developing around unionisation within knowledge- and information-based workplaces, and is particularly informed by the work of Mosco and McKercher (Mosco & McKercher, 2008; McKercher & Mosco, 2006, 2007), whose research focuses on knowledge worker mobilisation. Such an approach, as adopted here, requires reflection on India's industrial relations regime and the IT and ITES industries’ political-economic framework in the broader context of the new international division of labour, based on the increasingly fragmented commodity production chains that are distributed throughout the globe. The central theoretical model is grounded on a critical political economy of communication (Mosco, 2009)

Commodity · Division of labour · Economics · Economy · Geography · Globe · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Political Economy and Marxism

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