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Women in Kolkata’s IT Sector: Satisficing Between Work and Household

✍ Scribed by Zakir Husain, Mousumi Dutta (auth.)

Publisher
Springer India
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Leaves
140
Series
SpringerBriefs in Sociology
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Based on a survey of women workers in Kolkata’s IT sector, this book argues that growth of the IT sector has created a demand for skilled professionals. This has provided scope for highly educated urban women to create a space of self-expression and enjoy enhanced status and prestige within their families. These women workers carefully plan their career and daily activities, keeping in mind the need to balance diverse and conflicting needs of work and home. This kind of decision-making occurs outside the utilitarian framework and is better framed in terms of Herbert Simon’s ‘satisficing’ approach, which takes into account the bounded rationality of agents. Written in lucid, non-technical language, the book will be an invaluable addition to existing works on gender and labour studies and will be of interest to social scientists undertaking research on gender, labour and the IT sector.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Women, Work and Agency: An Introduction....Pages 1-19
Women, Work and Exploitation: A Binary Perspective....Pages 21-48
Women and Work: Towards an Alternative Approach....Pages 49-73
Nabadiganta: Women Workers in Kolkata’s IT Sector....Pages 75-96
Agency and Satisficing in Kolkata’s IT Sector....Pages 97-119
Work, Satisficing and Agency....Pages 121-129
Back Matter....Pages 131-133

✦ Subjects

Gender Studies; Labor Economics; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology

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