Description:
Using the Indian Information Technology (IT) industry as the empirical context, Neoliberal Subjectivities at Work develops a comprehensive conceptual and analytical framework for studying contemporary employment relations governed by techno-neoliberalism.
Review Quotes: This theoretically sophisticated, empirically rich account of IT subjectivities breaks new ground in our understanding of how employers and their allies aim to discipline tech workers and how these same workers push back to assert their personhood. While the public tends to view Indian tech workers as the heroes of globalization, Banday exposes the high personal and social costs that lie just beneath the surface of these celebratory discourses. Rendering the familiar strange, Banday's work forces us to revisit our taken-for-granted understandings of Indian IT workers, the companies they work for, and the social and political conditions that perpetuate both their isolation and their success.--Smitha Radhakrishnan, Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas, Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College, USA