عنوان

Young, Muslim, and Looking for Work: Preparing Marginalized Youth for Bangalore's Formal Economy

Number

TL48155

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Young, Muslim, and Looking for Work: Preparing Marginalized Youth for Bangalore's Formal Economy

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Brian Douglas Veazey

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Grindstaff, Laura

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California, Davis

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

337

Text of Note

Committee members: Bechky, Beth; Lo, Ming-Cheng

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-61013-0

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Sociology

Body granting the degree

University of California, Davis

Text preceding or following the note

2014

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Youth unemployment and persistent economic inequality represent two of the most pressing issues in the developing world today. In India, many tout the burgeoning Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry as creating a new and relatively straightforward path to employment and mobility for young workers. Yet many of those who stand to benefit most from employment in this industry-young people from communities with a history of social and economic exclusion from the formal sector-often lack the skills, dispositions, and contacts necessary to access these jobs. Following the journey to formal sector employment for one group of disadvantaged jobseekers, my dissertation provides an ethnographic analysis of one organization's attempt to provide free, short-term employment training to working-class and working-poor Muslim youth in Bangalore, India. Based on 52 in-depth interviews with emerging and established young professionals, and two years of participant-observation research as a 'livelihoods instructor,' I document the degree to which this effort-a combination of general education, vocational training, life skills, and gender inclusion-transmits the requisite forms of human, cultural, and social capital these young people need to secure meaningful jobs in Bangalore's BPO industry. My project contributes to discussions about the role of short-term vocational training programs in mainstreaming marginalized young people to formal sector employment and the need for an approach to poverty alleviation that considers the multidimensional nature of poverty.

Individual & family studies; South Asian Studies; Vocational education; Demography

Subject Term

Social sciences;Education;Business process outsourcing;Cultural capital;Ethnography;India;Marginalized youth;Social capital;Vocational training

Hemp, Merjjena B.

Grindstaff, Laura

Subdivision

Sociology

University of California, Davis

Call Number

1666454358; 3685306

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[Thesis]

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