Producing the knowledge professional: Gendered geographies of alienation in India’s new high-tech workplace

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 50-75

  Mukherjee, Sanjukta ^a  

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EID: 84921602061     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203152003     Document Type: Chapter

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