Decent Work: Insights from India’s IT Industry

By Nausheen Nizami, Narayan Prasad SAGE India

Decent Work’ is a concept developed by the International Labor Organization that sums up the aspirations of people in work life. This book provides a consolidated and encompassing guide to the underlying philosophy, meaning and theory of the decent work paradigm. It also provides an empirical analysis of the current status of decent work in the Information Technology (IT) industry of India adopting a pragmatic approach towards the measurement of decent work. One of the purposes of this study is to unfold different dimensions of decent work and counter the general perceptions about work conditions in the IT industry.