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Answer the Call : Virtual Migration in Indian Call Centers /

Drawing from interviews with agents, trainers, managers, and CEOs at call centers in Bangalore and Mumbai, Answer the Call shows that workers in call centers are not quite in India or America but rather in a state of "virtual migration." Encouraged to steep themselves in American culture,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Carrillo Rowe, Aimee
Otros Autores: Perez, Kim, 1962-, Malhotra, Sheena
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; Preface: On the ground; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Answering the call; 1. The rhythm of ambition: power temporalities and the production of the call center agent in U.S. popular culture; 2. "I Used to Call Myself Elvis": suspended mobilities in Indian call centers; 3. "I Interact with People from All Over the World": The politics of virtual citizenship; 4. "I'm Going to Sing It the Way Eminem Sings It": India's network geography; Conclusion: returning the call; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W. 
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