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Language Put to Work: The Making of the Global Call Centre Workforce(Dynamics of Virtual Work)

Language Put to Work: The Making of the Global Call Centre Workforce(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.



Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Subterranean Stream.- 1. Communicative Capitalism and Call Centre Labour.- 2. Labour's Resistance in the Call Centre.- 3. The Making of the Call Centre Cybertariat.- 4. The Migration of Struggle.- 5. The Organization of Autonomy.- 6. The Making and the Unmaking of the Global Call Centre Workforce.

About the Author :

Enda Brophy is Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada.



Review :
"In Language Put to Work: The Making of the Global Call Centre Workforce, Enda Brophy paints a striking picture of our generation, underpaid, overworked, betrayed, wasted." (Arianna Bove, tripleC, triple-c.at, Vol. 16 (1), March, 2018)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781349957729
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 306
  • Series Title: Dynamics of Virtual Work
  • Width: 148 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1349957720
  • Publisher Date: 27 Jul 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The Making of the Global Call Centre Workforce


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