Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin

Data & Society

Sareeta Amrute, professor of anthropology at the University of Washington, describes her research on the professional 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.

Chapters

1. How did Indian workers on the German green card program navigate issues of Race and Class in the IT sector? (00:00:00)

2. Understanding the sociology of Indian software through a longer history class and technology. (00:05:33)

3. “Sometimes I feel that my abilities are bracketed.” Free code and unfree people. (00:07:58)

4. Parody and the politics of refusal. (00:13:19)

5. Upending the myth of the contemporary cognitive worker. (00:16:37)