| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
1. Indian Information Technology Sector: The New Caste Inequality Frontier -- 2. Merit Construction and Caste Loopholes in the Indian IT Social Habitus -- 3. Merit vs. Caste 'Blood Sport' in the IT Work Arena: Implications for Caste Reproduction -- 4. Information Technology Education: Prelude to the Caste-Merit ̀Blood Sport' and Caste Reproduction -- 5. Merit and Gender Diversity: Lessons about Caste Diversity in Indian IT -- 6. Indian Information Technology, the New Caste Frontier: Deconstructing Caste Reproduction |
| Summary |
Does the burgeoning Indian information technology (IT) sector represent a deviation from the historical arc of caste inequality or has it become yet another site of discrimination? In 'The New Frontier', author Marilyn Fernandez describes how the practice of pure and holistic merit are deeply embedded in the social, cultural and economic privileges of the dominant castes and classes, and how caste filtering has led to the reproduction of caste hierarchies and, consequently, the small Dalit footprint in Indian IT |
| Notes |
Previously issued in print: 2018 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from HTML homepage (Oxford, viewed November 10, 2020) |
| Subject |
Discrimination in employment -- India
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Computer industry -- India -- Employees
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Caste -- India.
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Caste
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Computer industry -- Employees
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Discrimination in employment
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India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199092109 |
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0199092109 |
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