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Author Padios, Jan M., 1979- author.

Title A Nation on the Line : Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines / Jan M. Padios.

Publication Info. Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019.
©2018.

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Description 1 online resource (248 pages)
text file
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
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.
Summary "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 Nation on the Line Jan M. Padios examines this massive industry in the context of globalization, race, gender, transnationalism, and postcolonialism, outlining how it has become a significant site of efforts to redefine Filipino identity and culture, the Philippine nation-state, and the value of Filipino labor. She also chronicles the many contradictory effects of call center work on Filipino identity, family, consumer culture, and sexual politics. As Padios demonstrates, the critical question of call centers does not merely expose the logic of transnational capitalism and the legacies of colonialism; it also problematizes the process of nation-building and peoplehood in the early twenty-first century."-- Provided by publisher
Local Note Project Muse Project Muse Open Access
Access Open Access Unrestricted online access
Subject Call centers.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications.
Centres d'appels (Affaires) -- Philippines.
Call centers -- Philippines.
Philippines.
Genre/Form Electronic books. .
Added Author Project Muse, distributor.
ISBN 9781478091004
9780822370598
9780822370475
9780822371984
0822371987
0822370476
1478091002