Jyothish, Rohith
(2025)
Deindustrialization in the Global South: A Case Study of the IT Sector and Its Workers in Thiruvananthapuram City, India.
In:
Deindustrialization and Economic Restructuring in Post-Reform India.
1st ed.
Taylor and Francis, pp. 165-182.
ISBN 9781003594918
Abstract
There is considerable heterogeneity in the process of deindustrialization across the world, especially between the global north and south. In India, deindustrialization has been characterized by “jobless growth” in formal manufacturing and faster long-term services growth. At the subnational level and across sectors, there is no clear indication of a structural change as was seen in the West preceding deindustrialization either. A core facet of this is manufacturing firms increasingly moving towards selling services. This, in addition to a new growth paradigm which is more service led in general, can have implications for growth and inequality in these late-developing countries in South Asia. Based on unstructured interviews with over a hundred IT service workers (including software engineers) conducted in 2018–19, this chapter aims to document the circumstances of the creation of an information technology services workforce in a non-metropolitan city in the global south in the context of the macroeconomic phenomenon of heterogenous deindustrialization.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | Social Sciences and humanities > Economics, Econometrics and Finance > Economics Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Human Factors and Ergonomics |
| JGU School/Centre: | Jindal School of International Affairs |
| Depositing User: | Mr. Luckey Pathan |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Dec 2025 10:57 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Dec 2025 10:57 |
| Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003594918-8 |
| URI: | https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/10551 |
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