03436nam 22005895 450 991025270190332120220322202453.09781349952441134995244310.1057/978-1-349-95244-1(CKB)4340000000061913(DE-He213)978-1-349-95244-1(MiAaPQ)EBC4944043(Perlego)3494676(EXLCZ)99434000000006191320170615d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLanguage Put to Work The Making of the Global Call Centre Workforce /by Enda Brophy1st ed. 2017.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (XII, 306 p.) Dynamics of Virtual Work,2947-93049781349952434 1349952435 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.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.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 politica l-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.Dynamics of Virtual Work,2947-9304Industrial sociologySocial structureEqualityEconomicsSociological aspectsSociology of WorkSocial StructureEconomic SociologyIndustrial sociology.Social structure.Equality.EconomicsSociological aspects.Sociology of Work.Social Structure.Economic Sociology.306.36Brophy Endaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut876180BOOK9910252701903321Language Put to Work2495360UNINA