A Nation on the Line : Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines /
"In 2011 the Philippines surpassed India to become what the New York Times referred to as "the world's capital of call centers." By the end of 2015 the Philippine call center industry employed over one million people and generated twenty-two billion dollars in revenue. In A Natio...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Listening between the lines: relational labor, productive intimacy, and the affective contradictions of call center work
- Contesting skill and value: race, gender, and Filipino/American relatability in the neoliberal nation-state
- Inside Vox Elite: call center training and the limits of Filipino/American relatability
- Service with a style: aesthetic pleasures, productive youth, and the politics of consumption
- Queering the call center: sexual politics, HIV/AIDS, and the crisis of (re)production.