Neoliberal Subjectivities at Work
eBook - ePub

Neoliberal Subjectivities at Work

Conduct, Commitments, Contradictions and Contestations

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Neoliberal Subjectivities at Work

Conduct, Commitments, Contradictions and Contestations

About this book

Neoliberalism and the fourth industrial revolution are argued to be the dominant forces transforming work and employment relations in contemporary times. 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.

Examining how employers seek to produce employees as enterprising and technological subjects, how employees become or fail to become enterprising IT subjects and how unionized IT employees seek to contest neoliberalism through citizen-worker rights discourse, the author provides a compelling analysis of the governance and contestations of employee subjectivities. Situated in the extant debates on power, resistance and employment relations this book provides a unique account of theorizing and analyzing employees' lived experiences of neoliberalism in the Global South. Using the analytics of governmentality and intersectionality framework and studying data generated through documents, videos, and semi-structured interviews, Banday employs a post-structuralist lens to investigate how employment relations are problematized and the consequences on the employees' lives and resistance in contemporary workplaces.

With implications beyond India and the IT sector as neoliberalism and fourth industrial revolution discourses become mainstream forces governing workers, workplaces as well as policymaking, this is important reading for researchers interested in the sociology of work and organizational and management scholarship in relation to the globalized technological neoliberal capitalism.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, you can cancel anytime from the Subscription tab in your account settings on the Perlego website. Your subscription will stay active until the end of your current billing period. Learn how to cancel your subscription.
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
Perlego offers two plans: Essential and Complete
  • Essential is ideal for learners and professionals who enjoy exploring a wide range of subjects. Access the Essential Library with 800,000+ trusted titles and best-sellers across business, personal growth, and the humanities. Includes unlimited reading time and Standard Read Aloud voice.
  • Complete: Perfect for advanced learners and researchers needing full, unrestricted access. Unlock 1.4M+ books across hundreds of subjects, including academic and specialized titles. The Complete Plan also includes advanced features like Premium Read Aloud and Research Assistant.
Both plans are available with monthly, semester, or annual billing cycles.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes! You can use the Perlego app on both iOS or Android devices to read anytime, anywhere — even offline. Perfect for commutes or when you’re on the go.
Please note we cannot support devices running on iOS 13 and Android 7 or earlier. Learn more about using the app.
Yes, you can access Neoliberal Subjectivities at Work by Muneeb Ul Lateef Banday in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Global Development Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Frontmatter
  4. Frontmatter
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyyright Page
  7. Contents
  8. List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
  9. About the Author
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Chapter 1 Introduction
  12. Chapter 2 ‘Reskill or Perish’: Producing and Regulating the Conduct of Neoliberal IT Workers
  13. Chapter 3 ‘Don’t be happy’: Commitments and Contradictions in Becoming Enterprising IT Subject
  14. Chapter 4 ‘Our union is like a sleeper cell’: Unionism as Counter Conduct Within Neoliberalis
  15. Chapter 5 Conclusion
  16. Appendix
  17. References
  18. Index