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100 1 _aHusain, Zakir.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aWomen in Kolkata’s IT Sector
_h[electronic resource] :
_bSatisficing Between Work and Household /
_cby Zakir Husain, Mousumi Dutta.
264 1 _aNew Delhi :
_bSpringer India :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2014.
300 _aXV, 133 p. 14 illus.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aSpringerBriefs in Sociology,
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505 0 _aChapter 1. Women, Work and Agency: An Introduction -- Chapter 2. Women, work and exploitation: A binary perspective -- Chapter 3. Women and work: Towards an alternative approach -- Chapter 4. Nabadiganta—Women workers in Kolkata’s IT sector -- Chapter 5. Agency and satisficing in Kolkata’s IT sector -- Chapter 6. Work, Satisficing and Agency.
520 _aBased 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.
650 0 _aPhilosophy (General).
650 0 _aLabor economics.
650 0 _aDevelopmental psychology.
650 1 4 _aPsychology.
650 2 4 _aGender Studies.
650 2 4 _aLabor Economics.
650 2 4 _aOrganizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
700 1 _aDutta, Mousumi.
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710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
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776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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830 0 _aSpringerBriefs in Sociology,
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1593-6
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