Encoding race, encoding class : Indian IT workers in Berlin /
Amrute, Sareeta.
Encoding race, encoding class : Indian IT workers in Berlin / Sareeta Amrute. - Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. - x, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index.
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.
9780822361350
2016004523
East Indians--Germany--Berlin.
Foreign workers, East Indian--Germany--Berlin.
Information technology--Employees.--Germany--Berlin
Computer programmers--Germany--Berlin.
Computer programmers--India.
DD78.E28 / A47 2016
331.6254043155 Am7E
Encoding race, encoding class : Indian IT workers in Berlin / Sareeta Amrute. - Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. - x, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index.
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.
9780822361350
2016004523
East Indians--Germany--Berlin.
Foreign workers, East Indian--Germany--Berlin.
Information technology--Employees.--Germany--Berlin
Computer programmers--Germany--Berlin.
Computer programmers--India.
DD78.E28 / A47 2016
331.6254043155 Am7E