Sareeta AmruteEncoding Race, Encoding Class
Indian IT Workers in Berlin
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Cognitive Work, Cognitive Bodies 1
Part I. Encoding Race
1. Imagining the Indian IT Body 29
2. The Postracial Office 54
3. Proprietary Freedoms in an IT Office 86
Part II. Encoding Class
4. The Stroke of Midnight and the Spirit of Entrepreneurship: A History of
the Computer in India 111
5. Computers Are Very Stupid Cooks: Reinventing Leisure as a Politics of
Pleasure 137
6. The Traveling Diaper Bag: Gifts and Jokes as Materializing Immaterial
Labor 164
A Speculative Conclusion: Secrets and Lives 185
Notes 203
Bibliography 231
Index 253
