Labour in the new economy: the case of the Indian software labour market

By:

Rothboeck, S

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi; International Labour Organization; 2001Description: 100 pISBN:

9221129179

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International labour organization

DDC classification:

331.12 ROT

Summary: The role information and communication technologies (ICT) has has played in the last decade and will play in today's knowledge intensive world of work in industrialised countries as well as in developing cannot be emphasised enough. ICT has not only been increasingly used in production processes but have created a significant amount of sector specific new activities and products which in fact are again strongly dependent on those technologies. The Software Industry is one such sector, which has created a tremendous amount of new forms of work of different qualities. India, it is said has developed to become one of the central players internationally in this sector given its tremendous human resource potential to expand and become a serious competitor for the industrialised world. Despite the global economic slowdown during the last few months, which, to a certain extent also has impacted the international demand for Indian software professionals and services, this sector is still and will be the highest growth sector in the near future. This study was commissioned as an input study to the World Employment Report 2001, which deals with Information and Communication Technologies and their associated labour markets. The main aim of the study is to complement the industry-dominated debate on the Software Industry with employment related, first-hand information for a coherent understanding of the dynamics of this specific labour market in India.

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The role information and communication technologies (ICT) has has played in the last decade and will play in today's knowledge intensive world of work in industrialised countries as well as in developing cannot be emphasised enough. ICT has not only been increasingly used in production processes but have created a significant amount of sector specific new activities and products which in fact are again strongly dependent on those technologies. The Software Industry is one such sector, which has created a tremendous amount of new forms of work of different qualities. India, it is said has developed to become one of the central players internationally in this sector given its tremendous human resource potential to expand and become a serious competitor for the industrialised world. Despite the global economic slowdown during the last few months, which, to a certain extent also has impacted the international demand for Indian software professionals and services, this sector is still and will be the highest growth sector in the near future.

This study was commissioned as an input study to the World Employment Report 2001, which deals with Information and Communication Technologies and their associated labour markets. The main aim of the study is to complement the industry-dominated debate on the Software Industry with employment related, first-hand information for a coherent understanding of the dynamics of this specific labour market in India.

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