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ISBN:
9780822361176
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9780822361350
Content:
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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English
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ISBN 9780822361176
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822361350
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Amrute, Sareeta Bipin Encoding race, encoding class Durham : Duke University Press, 2016 ISBN 9780822361176
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Author information:
Amrute, Sareeta Bipin
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