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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

From a sociological perspective, examine the effects of the BPO industry on the youth.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

The claim to be tested is that business process outsourcing gave young Indians a short route to modernity — income, autonomy and a global workplace before twenty-five. The evidence supports it on consumption and gender and undercuts it on class: the BPO produced a cohort middle class in consumption and proletarian in control.

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  • Early income and a new consumption adulthood
  • Night work, health and the household
  • Gender: entry, and the backlash
  • Identity work and the limits of the "global" workplace
  • What has changed since 2010
  • Conclusion

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