Arvind SinghAIR 10 · CSE 2014 · 226 wordsTheir whole copy
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Information Technology (IT) is a product of modernity and hyper-capitalism. It has strengthened the rapidity of globalization. Thus the significance of IT on the social organization of work is analyzed from different perspectives:
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(i) Family 'once again' becoming a Unit of Production: The industrialization has separated the function of production from family to the industries. But due to IT, many part-time work, home based work has become possible. This majorly involves women. Thus family is again becoming a unit of production in a restricted way, even in modernity.
(ii) Feminization of Labour
- Feminists believe that their is an increasing segregation of work based on gender. Thus we see more 'pink collar' jobs. e.g. BPO workers, involves majorly womenforce.
- It leads to vulnerization of women as their is wage difference. Labour pool is large, but demand is less.
(iii) Increasing 'Informalization' of the Organized/Formal sector
- IT has accelerated the pace of contractualization, outsourcing.
- Thus even in organized sector, vulnerability of job security has increased, as IT related jobs can be quicked moved from one company to the other and even from one country to other.
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Conclusion: Thus IT may have increased the number of jobs in the formal organizations, but the bargaining power of the labour is similar to the informal sector. Jobs have increased but so is Relative Deprivation, De-personalization and vulnerability.