A nation on the line
Subtitle: call centers as postcolonial predicaments in the Philippines
By: Fan M. Padios
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780822370475; 9780822370598
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Call centers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Listening between the lines: relational labor, productive intimacy, and the affective contradictions of call center work; title: Contesting skill and value: race, gender, and Filipino/American relatability in the neoliberal nation-state; title: Inside vox elite: call center training and the limits of Filipino/American relatability; title: Service with a style: aesthetic pleasures, productive youth, and the politics of consumption; title: Queering the call center: sexual politics, HIV/AIDS, and the crisis of (re)production.