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“I’ll Be Like Water”: Gender, Class, and Flexible Aspirations at the Edge of India’s Knowledge Economy.

This article examines the ways in which ideologies of aspiration, inclusion, and women’s empowerment associated with India’s globalizing knowledge economy are re-framed by young women workers in a small-town business-process outsourcing (BPO) center two hours outside of Bangalore. Drawing on forty i...

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Published in:Gender & Society Vol. 27; no. 6; pp. 777 - 799
Main Author: Vijayakumar, Gowri
Format: Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Dec2013
Subjects:
India
Young women
Women employees
Economic development
Middle class
Class differences
Business process outsourcing
Vocational interests
Neoliberalism
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost