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.