Cracking IT: Negotiating Working-Class Gender Capital through Group Enterprises in India

Digital work is often associated with higher levels of earning and increased social mobility. Working in the digital economy will not benefit all women equally or act as an enabler of broader social change. The article draws attention to the intersection of gender and class in work in the information technology (IT) sector of India, where women have increased their visibility and participation. Through a gender capital approach and intersectional analyses, the article points to the incontrovertible impact of class and gender when women from low-income backgrounds engage in IT-based group enterprises in the state of Kerala. A central insight from the study is the need to disaggregate types of IT work as women’s experiences in IT are shaped by the simultaneity of working practices, intersectional inequalities and gendered behaviours, often with limits to gender capital and spill-over impact on broader gender and social relations.

Research on Modeling Technology of Virtual Resources Cloud Pool for Group Enterprises Based on Ontology

To realize cloud manufacturing (CMfg) production in group enterprises, manufacturing resources and modeling technologies of cloud pool were studied. According to the characteristics of group enterprises, manufacturing resources were analyzed and classified into human, equipment, materials, cooperation resources and so on. Then, the realization method which manufacturing resources mapped into virtual resources was researched, and a layer platform for cloud manufacturing was proposed. Taking CNC machine tool as an example, the ontology model was built with Semantic Web and OWL based on ontology theory. Finally, using semantic similarity computation method and case-based reasoning, the virtual resources were intelligent searched and matched so that manufacturing resources can realize unification, sharing and reuse.