Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin

Synopsis

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. Sareeta Amrute. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.