Encoding Race, Encoding Class : Indian IT Workers in Berlin /

In Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the lives of Indian IT coders temporarily working in Berlin, showing how their cognitive labor reimagines race and class and how their acceptance and resistance to their work offers new potentials for alternative visions of living and working...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Amrute, Sareeta Bipin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Programmierer
Inder
Foreign workers, East Indian.
East Indians.
Computer programmers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Programmeurs > Inde.
Programmeurs > Allemagne > Berlin.
Technologie de l'information > Allemagne > Berlin > Personnel.
Travailleurs etrangers de l'Inde > Allemagne > Berlin.
Indiens (Habitants de l'Inde) > Allemagne > Berlin.
Computer programmers > India.
Computer programmers > Germany > Berlin.
Information technology > Germany > Berlin > Employees.
Foreign workers, East Indian > Germany > Berlin.
East Indians > Germany > Berlin.
Berlin
India.
Germany > Berlin.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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