01192nam a22001217a 4500008004100000100004500041245013300086260003600219300003200255520066900287650007800956773003601034230103b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aJoshi, Chandra Shekhar and  Raman, A. V.  aPerils and paradoxes of outsourcing: An ethnographic study exploring hopes and dissonances emanating from it employment in India  aManagement and Labour Studies    a47(4), Nov, 2022: p.448-469  aThis article intends to revisit the optimistic and pessimistic views on offshoring and investigate their contemporary relevance in the context of Indian information technology (IT) workers. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews with 51 IT workers, this study argues that the nature and content of work are less relevant than circumstances, situational conflicts and social interactions in constituting work and its experiences. Thus, the study suggests that relocation of business activities or its expansion does not render work as utopian or precarious only by itself; it is also co-constructed as such by the offshore players.- Reproduced   aEchnography, Grounded theory, IT employment, Of shoring, Work experience   aManagement and Labour Studies