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Author Amrute, Sareeta, author

Title Encoding Race, Encoding Class : Indian IT Workers in Berlin Sareeta Amrute
Published Durham : Duke University Press, [2016]
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Description Electronic book
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
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In English
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
Subject Computer programmers -- Germany -- Berlin
Computer programmers -- India
East Indians -- Germany -- Berlin
Foreign workers, East Indian -- Germany -- Berlin
Information technology -- Germany -- Berlin -- Employees
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Social Science / Emigration & Immigration.
Social Science / Sociology.
Computer programmers
East Indians
Foreign workers, East Indian
Germany -- Berlin
India
Form Electronic book
Author Duke University Press, publisher.
LC no. 2016004523
ISBN 9780822374275
0822374277