Encoding Race, Encoding Class

Amrute Sareeta Amrute

Description

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.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Labour economics
• Germany
• Migration

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 04 août 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822374275
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 17 Mo

Extrait

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à ô Côéŝŝ Cààô--ûçàô àà Nàéŝ: Aûé, Śàééà B, àûô. é: Eçô àçé, éçô çàŝŝ : à It wôéŝ  Bé / Śàééà Aûé. éŝçô: ûà : ûé Uéŝ éŝŝ, 2016. | çûéŝ ôàçà éééçéŝ à éx. éiéŝ: lccn 2016004523 () | lccn 2016006128 (éôô) Isbn 9780822361176 (àçôé : à. àé) Isbn 9780822361350 (. : à. àé) Isbn 9780822374275 (é-ôô) Śûjéçŝ: lcsh: Eàŝ àŝ—Géà—Bé. | ôé wôéŝ, Eàŝ à—Géà—Bé. | ôàô éçôô— Géà—Bé—Eôééŝ. | Côûé ôàéŝ— Géà—Bé. | Côûé ôàéŝ—à. Càŝŝiçàô: lcc dd78.e28 a47 2016 () | lcc dd78.e28 (éôô) | ddc 331.6/254043155—ç23 lc éçô àààé à ://çç.ôç.ô/2016004523

Côé éŝ  Nààé . Ś

Côé à: © Śéà àôé / Aà Śôç ôô. éçŝàŝŝé Śô Śéé  Bé, Śééé 16, 2013.

Untîlthewîsearesatîsied,Icannotfeelthatskîllîsshown, The best-traîned mînd requîres support, and does not trust îtself alone. —Kālîdāsa,Shakuntala

The whole cannot be put together by addîng the separated halves, but în both there appear, however dîstantly, the changes of the whole, whîch only moves în contradîctîon. —Theodor W. Adorno, “On the Festîsh Character în MusîcandtheRegressîonofLîstenîng”

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Introductîon: Cognîtîve Work, Cognîtîve Bodîes

PA RT I.R A C EE N C O D IN G

Chapter 1. Imagînîng the Indîan IT Body

Chapter 2. The Postracîal Ofice

Chapter 3. Proprîetary Freedoms în an IT Ofice

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Chapter 4. The Stroke of Mîdnîght and the Spîrît of Entrepreneurshîp: A Hîstory of the Computer în Indîa

Chapter 5. Computers Are Very Stupîd Cooks: Reînventîng Leîsure as a Polîtîcs of Pleasure

Chapter 6. The Travelîng Dîaper Bag: Gîfts and Jokes as Materîalîzîng Immaterîal Labor

A Speculatîve Conclusîon: Secrets and Lîves

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A éà, Uŝûà é Gû éŝ ûŝ, “ŝ é àŝŝ— çàéŝ , éŝ çôwŝ, éŝ ô çôŝŝéé, ôwŝ éé ô é ŝéé ô.” Hôû ŝ ôô à àé à ŝé wé, ŝ àûôŝ àé ôŝé wô ôûŝé ŝ ôû- ŝ éàŝ. Hé ŝûôà éŝ ô  wéé é Côéé ô Śôû- é Aŝà Śûéŝ à é Uéŝ ô Cçàô, é û ôûàô, é Śôçà Śçéçé éŝéàç Côûç Bé ôà, é Céé ô Cûûà Aàŝŝ à ûéŝ Uéŝ ôŝôçôà éôwŝ, é Śôçé ô é- ôwŝ ô é Śŝô Céé ô é ûàéŝ à é Uéŝ ô Wàŝ- ô, é Aéçà ŝûé ô à Śûéŝ ŝŝéàô-ô-Bôô Wôŝô, à é Wéé-Gé û ôŝôçôà éôwŝ. Géé ŝôŝ çàé ô  éôŝ Ezàé ôé, Jéà Côàôf, Śûŝà Gà, à Jô Ké. àûàé éà  é ô ô ûéŝôŝ çàé à é ôéŝ ô éŝ Cààà, Aà Bàŝà, Mçàé Wàé, Bé Ewàŝ, Śûŝà Wàé, Wà Màzzàéà, Kàà , A. Aééŝ, à Ajû Aàûà. Kàéé Wôôwà à Jû ôwà’ŝ ŝûô wàŝ é ûç-ééé ŝûŝé ô à ôéwŝé à Śéàé à. M éŝ à çôéàûéŝ à é Uéŝ ô Wàŝô—Gà Néf,  ôwà, Śôà Kûà, Śàŝà Wéà, à ôfà, Śûà Kàé, Cŝà Nôézé, Aŝ Wéàû, àà à, Càà é, Jéé ûôw, à Jàéé Aé—wô éà çôûéŝŝ àTŝ ô éŝé çàéŝ, ŝééé àwàŝ ô ôw wé ô jû àôû à wé ô é é éàŝ û à é w. ûçà Aà, àŝééà Gôà, M àà, Śôà Śà, Vç Béà, Kéé MçG, Géçé Bàé, Aéà Mûééàç, Mé Śàçû, à Śà Yôûŝŝé çôûé ççà çôŝŝ- éé  éûà éàŝ, à  ôô ôwà ô à ôé éàŝ ô