Encoding race, encoding class : : Indian IT workers in Berlin / / Sareeta Bipin Amrute.
In Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the work and private lives of highly skilled Indian IT coders in Berlin to reveal the oft-obscured realities of the embodied, raced, and classed nature of cognitive labor. In addition to conducting fieldwork and interviews in IT offices as wel...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 268 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: cognitive workers, cognitive bodies
- ENCODING RACE
- Imagining the Indian IT body
- The postracial office
- Proprietary freedoms in an IT office
- ENCODING CLASS
- The stroke of midnight and the spirit of entrepreneurship : a history of the computer in India
- Computers are very stupid cooks : reinventing leisure as a politics of pleasure
- The traveling diaper bag : gifts and jokes as materializing immaterial labor
- A speculative conclusion : secrets and lives.