Decent Work and Low-end IT Occupation Workers in Delhi: Work Pathways, Challenges and Opportunities
Dr. Rajib Nandi
Research Fellow, Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi, India
Abstract
The spectacular growth of ICT in India somehow makes people believe that the average IT professional in India is a graduate from one of the many respected technology schools and employed in a global IT firm. However, a much larger number of people, IT occupation workers, with different levels of skills are employed at the other end of the IT spectrum across the ICT and non-ICT sectors, formal and informal sectors, where very often the wage-rate is negotiated on the basis of verbal contracts in the absence of any standard wage rate. The present paper, based on household survey, carried out in 2009 in Delhi provides an analytical description of low-end IT occupation workers from a “decent work” perspective as conceptualized by the International Labour Organization in order to promote opportunities, in terms of freedom, equity, security and human dignity.
Keywords:
Decent work; Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs); labour; digital divide; Informal economy.
Reference:
Nandi, Rajib. “Decent Work and Low-End IT Occupation Workers in Delhi: Work Pathways, Challenges and Opportunities.” ISSN: 2321-8908, 2014.
