Despite the attention that has been bestowed by the popular media on the emergence of the Information Technology (IT) and IT-Enabled Services (ITES) industries in India, little is known about the people who work in them, the nature of the work, or its wider social and cultural ramifications. This volume breaks new ground in providing a set of studies that examine India's IT and ITES industries from sociological and anthropological perspectives, drawing simultaneously on diverse theoretical approaches. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the complexities of these new global industries, the organisation and culture of work within them, and their impact on workers. The major themes of this volume are how cultures at work and beyond the workplace are mutually constituted and imbricated in one another, and the diverse ways in which the 'global' is instantiated in the 'local' in the context of hi-tech led globalisation in India. This study makes a significant contribution to the sociology of work and industry in India, and more broadly to the anthropological and sociological literature on globalization, The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of sociology, anthropology, management, labour studies, information technology, and business and organisational studies, apart from the general reader. Book jacket.