Description |
Electronic book |
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1 online resource (272 pages) : 9 illustrations |
Contents |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. ENCODING RACE -- Chapter 1. Imagining the Indian IT Body -- Chapter 2. The Postracial Office -- Chapter 3. Proprietary Freedoms in an IT Office -- PART II. ENCODING CLASS -- Chapter 4. The Stroke of Midnight and the Spirit of Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 5. Computers Are Very Stupid Cooks -- Chapter 6. The Traveling Diaper Bag -- A Speculative Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Summary |
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 well as analyzing political cartoons, advertisements, and reports on white-collar work, Amrute spent time with a core of twenty programmers before, during, and after their shifts. She shows how they occupy a contradictory position, as they are racialized in Germany as temporary and migrant grunt workers, yet their middle-class aspirations reflect efforts to build a new, global, and economically dominant India. The ways they accept and resist the premises and conditions of their work offer new potentials for alternative visions of living and working in neoliberal economies. Demonstrating how these coders' cognitive labor realigns and reimagines race and class, Amrute conceptualizes personhood and migration within global capitalism in new ways |
Notes |
Available through DeGruyter |
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In English |
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020) |
Subject |
Computer programmers -- Germany -- Berlin
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Computer programmers -- India
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East Indians -- Germany -- Berlin
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Foreign workers, East Indian -- Germany -- Berlin
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Information technology -- Germany -- Berlin -- Employees
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Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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Social Science / Emigration & Immigration.
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Social Science / Sociology.
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Computer programmers
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East Indians
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Foreign workers, East Indian
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Germany -- Berlin
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India
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Duke University Press, publisher.
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LC no. |
2016004523 |
ISBN |
9780822374275 |
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0822374277 |
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