LEADER 02783nam 2200397 450 001 9910645995103321 005 20230513203750.0 010 $a1-4780-9187-8 035 $a(CKB)5700000000338138 035 $a(NjHacI)995700000000338138 035 $a(ScCtBLL)8af092a3-3162-4906-8c53-db7a553233f9 035 $a(EXLCZ)995700000000338138 100 $a20230513d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEncoding race, encoding class $eIndian IT workers in Berlin /$fSareeta Bipin Amrute 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 268 pages) $cillustrations 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aIn Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the work and private lives of highly skilled Indian IT coders in Berlin to reveal the oft-obscured realities of the embodied, raced, and classed nature of cognitive labor. In addition to conducting fieldwork and interviews in IT offices as well as analyzing political cartoons, advertisements, and reports on white-collar work, Amrute spent time with a core of twenty programmers before, during, and after their shifts. She shows how they occupy a contradictory position, as they are racialized in Germany as temporary and migrant grunt workers, yet their middle-class aspirations reflect efforts to build a new, global, and economically dominant India. The ways they accept and resist the premises and conditions of their work offer new potentials for alternative visions of living and working in neoliberal economies. Demonstrating how these coders' cognitive labor realigns and reimagines race and class, Amrute conceptualizes personhood and migration within global capitalism in new ways.$c-- Publisher description. 517 $aEncoding Race, Encoding Class 606 $aComputer programmers$zGermany$zBerlin 606 $aComputer programmers$zIndia 615 0$aComputer programmers 615 0$aComputer programmers 676 $a004.0683 700 $aAmrute$b Sareeta Bipin$01270357 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910645995103321 996 $aEncoding race, encoding class$92991415 997 $aUNINA