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 in neoliberal economies. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JFFN; JFSL3; JHBL; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522. . 2016. Hardback. . . . .

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Title: Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Date: 2016
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0822361175
ISBN 13: 9780822361176
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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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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Sareeta Amrute is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington.

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