This theoretically sophisticated, empirically rich account of IT subjectivities breaks new ground in our understanding of how employers and their allies aim to discipline tech workers and how these same workers push back to assert their personhood. While the public tends to view Indian tech workers as the heroes of globalization, Banday exposes the high personal and social costs that lie just beneath the surface of these celebratory discourses. Rendering the familiar strange, Bandays work forces us to revisit our taken-for-granted understandings of Indian IT workers, the companies they work for, and the social and political conditions that perpetuate both their isolation and their success. -- Smitha Radhakrishnan, Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas, Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College, USA Dr. Banday has produced a highly readable book focusing on Information Communication Technology employees working in India. Apart from this being a distinctive contribution to the dramatically expanding IT sector in this part of the world as a global phenomenon, the research also advances our understanding of subjectivity in the context of neo-liberal developments. This will be an important book for those interested in human resource implications of technology and for students expecting a more critical analysis of contemporary working life. -- Emeritus Professor David Knights, Lancaster University, UK This extraordinary book charts the production of new-age employees by the discursive forces of neoliberalism in an era of late capitalism. The book locates its empirical domain in the Indian IT sector, but also provides invaluable insights that transcend spatial and temporal boundaries to make a significant theoretical contribution. -- Raza Mir, Professor, William Paterson University, USA This clearly written and well-informed critical poststructuralist monograph offers fascinating insight into the tensions and contradictions in the lives of Indian IT workers. A much-needed Foucauldian intersectional exploration for scholars of careers, employment relations, and anyone interested in understanding the complexities and exploitations of the contemporary neoliberal world of work. -- Alexandra Bristow, The Open University, UK
