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Language Put to Work - The Making of the Global Call Centre Workforce (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
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Language Put to Work - The Making of the Global Call Centre Workforce (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Dynamics of Virtual Work
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WINNER of The Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize, awarded by the
Canadian Communication Association, and the Canadian Association of
Work and Labour Studies, Book of the Year Award. This book examines
the striking rise of call centres over the past quarter century
through the lens of the resistance and collective organizing
generated by workers along the digital assembly lines. Drawing on
field research in Atlantic Canada, Ireland, Italy, and New Zealand,
Enda Brophy investigates the contested making of the transnational
call centre workforce and its integration into the circuits of
global capitalism. Moving beyond depictions of call centre labour
as either entirely liberated or utterly subordinated, Language Put
to Work inquires into the forms of work refusal and insubordination
provoked by the spread of these communicative workplaces, including
informal strategies of quitting, slacking and sabotage,
conventional trade union activity, tactical innovations at the
margins of the labour movement, and forms of self-organization
forged by workers outside of the established trade union movement.
Weaving rich empirical evidence together with political-economic
analysis and theories of resistance, this book argues that the
submission of language to the production of value in the call
centre is a process of proletarianization rather than
professionalization, and that the new working class has widely
opposed this transformation.
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