Sareeta Amrute: ‘My book takes sides. It’s not just descriptive, it’s provocative.’

UW Anthropology Professor Sareeta Amrute is interviewed by Ilana Gershon of CaMP Anthropology about her newbook Sareeta Amrute on her new book, Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin

“Global corporations compartmentalize temporary coders from India. “Grunts” resist by writing their code in such a way that makes that code harder to hand off to another, making them harder to replace.”