{"product_id":"neoliberal-subjectivities-at-work-muneeb-ul-lateef-banday-9781835490303","title":"Neoliberal Subjectivities at Work: Conduct, Commitments, Contradictions and Contestations","description":"\u003cp\u003eNeoliberalism and the fourth industrial revolution are argued to be the dominant forces transforming work and employment relations in contemporary times. Using the Indian Information Technology (IT) industry as the empirical context, \u003cem\u003eNeoliberal Subjectivities at Work\u003c\/em\u003e develops a comprehensive conceptual and analytical framework for studying contemporary employment relations governed by techno-neoliberalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExamining how employers seek to produce employees as enterprising and technological subjects, how employees become or fail to become enterprising IT subjects and how unionized IT employees seek to contest neoliberalism through citizen-worker rights discourse, the author provides a compelling analysis of the governance and contestations of employee subjectivities. Situated in the extant debates on power, resistance and employment relations\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ethis book provides\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ea unique account of theorizing and analyzing employees' lived experiences of neoliberalism in the Global South. Using the analytics of governmentality and intersectionality framework and studying data generated through documents, videos, and semi-structured interviews, Banday employs a post-structuralist lens to investigate how employment relations are problematized and the consequences on the employees' lives and resistance in contemporary workplaces.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith implications beyond India and the IT sector as neoliberalism and fourth industrial revolution discourses become mainstream forces governing workers, workplaces as well as policymaking, this is important reading for researchers interested in the sociology of work and organizational and management scholarship in relation to the globalized technological neoliberal capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Muneeb Ul LaTeef Banday\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1835490301\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781835490303\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Emerald Publishing Limited\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Muneeb Ul LaTeef Banday","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46767395275007,"sku":"9781835490303","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c293c80f-4999-4932-b36b-150b965e4ccf.jpg?v=1744169691","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/neoliberal-subjectivities-at-work-muneeb-ul-lateef-banday-9781835490303","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}