Assessing The Impact on Workers Based on Vertical Disintegration – From the Perspective of India’s Outsourcing Sector

Abstract

Since the 1980s, there has been a transforming organizational structure of the transnational corporations moving towards a ‘networked vertical disintegration’ framework. And India has become the main destination for the technological vertical disintegration of multinational corporations. Therefore, the main aim of this paper is to reassess the impact of vertical disintegration on workers through the lens of India IT outsourcing industry. Although scholars have largely recognized a dichotomy of ‘core’ and ‘periphery’ in the impact brought by vertical disintegration, the case of India IT outsourcing sector rather illuminate a dynamic power in employment relation between ‘core versus periphery’ agency and thus an increasing bargaining power for collective action of ‘workers’ to challenge such binary and further navigate and deal with ‘vertical disintegration’ pattern.