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Lives on the Line

- How the Philippines became the World's Call Center Capital
Af: Jeffrey J. Sallaz Engelsk Paperback

Lives on the Line

- How the Philippines became the World's Call Center Capital
Af: Jeffrey J. Sallaz Engelsk Paperback
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The call center industry is booming in the Philippines. Around the year 2005, the country overtook India as the world''s "voice capital," and industry revenues are now the second largest contributor to national GDP. In Lives on the Line, Jeffrey J. Sallaz retraces the assemblage of a global market for voice over the past two decades. Drawing upon case studies of sixty Filipino call center workers and two years of fieldwork in Manila, he illustrates how offshore call center jobs represent a middle path for educated Filipinos, who are faced with the dismaying choice to migrate abroad in search of prosperity versus stay at home as an impoverished professional. A rich ethnographic study, this book challenges existing stereotypes regarding offshore service jobs and sheds light upon the reasons that the Philippines has become the world''s favored location for "voice." It looks beyond call centers and beyond India to advance debates concerning global capitalism, the future of work, and the lives of those who labor in offshored jobs.
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The call center industry is booming in the Philippines. Around the year 2005, the country overtook India as the world''s "voice capital," and industry revenues are now the second largest contributor to national GDP. In Lives on the Line, Jeffrey J. Sallaz retraces the assemblage of a global market for voice over the past two decades. Drawing upon case studies of sixty Filipino call center workers and two years of fieldwork in Manila, he illustrates how offshore call center jobs represent a middle path for educated Filipinos, who are faced with the dismaying choice to migrate abroad in search of prosperity versus stay at home as an impoverished professional. A rich ethnographic study, this book challenges existing stereotypes regarding offshore service jobs and sheds light upon the reasons that the Philippines has become the world''s favored location for "voice." It looks beyond call centers and beyond India to advance debates concerning global capitalism, the future of work, and the lives of those who labor in offshored jobs.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9780190630669
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0190630663
Udg. Dato: 5 sep 2019
Længde: 15mm
Bredde: 236mm
Højde: 155mm
Forlag: Oxford University Press Inc
Oplagsdato: 5 sep 2019
Forfatter(e): Jeffrey J. Sallaz
Forfatter(e) Jeffrey J. Sallaz


Kategori Social diskriminering og ligestilling


ISBN-13 9780190630669


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 256


Udgave


Længde 15mm


Bredde 236mm


Højde 155mm


Udg. Dato 5 sep 2019


Oplagsdato 5 sep 2019


Forlag Oxford University Press Inc

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