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Encoding race, encoding class Indian IT workers in Berlin

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Durham Duke University Press 2016Description: x, 268 p. illustrations 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780822361350
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Encoding race, encoding classDDC classification:
  • 331.6254043155 23 AM-E
LOC classification:
  • DD78.E28 A47 2016
Contents:
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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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.

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