A Nation on the Line Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines

Author:: Padios, Jan M.
Published:: Durham, NC Duke University Press 2018
Physical Description:: 1 online resource

Access Online

library.oapen.org , Open Access: OAPEN Library: description of the publication
library.oapen.org , Open Access: OAPEN Library, download the publication

Availability

Finding items...

Language Note:

English

Restrictions on Access:

Open Access Unrestricted online access

Summary:

A NATION ON THE LINE is an ethnographic study of the call center industry in the Philippines and of its workforce composed of young, largely college-educated Filipinos. Padios merges several lines of inquiry about Pacific transnationalism, about the role of affective labor in global markets, and about critique of Filipino exploitation by the United States through economic and military power since independence-- in order to consider how post-colonial and post-industrial changes in the Philippines' role in global capitalism and culture are brought to bear in everyday life. Padios argues that the call center industry serves as a rich case-study for how Filipinos work within hegemonic dynamics of relational service and an understanding of American consumer culture in ways that figure Filipinos' sense of identity and aspirations at the national and individual levels.

Other Subject(s):

ISBN:

9780822371984

Collection:

OAPEN Library.

Funding Information:

Knowledge Unlatched

Terms of Use and Reproduction:

Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/arr/4.0/legalcode
Creative Commons

View MARC record | catkey: 31195238