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In Code Work, H茅ctor Beltr谩n examines Mexican and Latinx coders鈥� personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work. Beltr谩n shows how these hackers apply concepts from the code worlds to their lived experiences, deploying batches, loose coupling, iterative processing (looping), hacking, prototyping, and full-stack development in their daily social interactions鈥攁t home, in the workplace, on the dating scene, and in their understanding of the economy, culture, and geopolitics. Merging ethnographic analysis with systems thinking, he draws on his eight years of research in M茅xico and the United States鈥攄uring which he participated in and observed hackathons, hacker schools, and tech entrepreneurship conferences鈥攖o unpack the conundrums faced by workers in a tech economy that stretches from villages in rural M茅xico to Silicon Valley.

Beltr谩n chronicles the tension between the transformative promise of hacking鈥攖he idea that coding will reconfigure the boundaries of race, ethnicity, class, and gender鈥攁nd the reality of a neoliberal capitalist economy divided and structured by the US/M茅xico border. Young hackers, many of whom approach coding in a spirit of playfulness and exploration, are encouraged to appropriate the discourses of flexibility and self-management even as they remain outside formal employment. Beltr谩n explores the ways that 鈥渋nnovative culture鈥� is seen as central in curing M茅xico鈥檚 social ills, showing that when innovation is linked to technological development, other kinds of development are neglected. Beltr谩n鈥檚 highly original, wide-ranging analysis uniquely connects technology studies, the anthropology of capitalism, and Latinx and Latin American studies.

Awards and Recognition

• Winner of the Labor Tech Book Award, Labor Tech Research Network
• Winner of the Association of Latina/o and Latinx Anthropologists Book Award
• Honorable Mention for the Arthur J. Rubel Book Prize, Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
• Winner of the Americo Paredes Book Award, South Texas College
• Winner of the Society for Anthropology of Work Book Award