Empowerment and constraint: Women, work and the family in Chennai’s software industry

In an Outpost of the Global Economy: Work and Workers in India's Information Technology Industry

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 190-210

  Fuller, C J ^a   Narasimhan, Haripriya ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203152003     Document Type: Chapter

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