Jamie Woodcock 
Working the Phones [EPUB ebook] 
Control and Resistance in Call Centres

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*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2017*
*Winner of the 2016 Labor History Best Book prize*
Over a million people in the UK work in call centres, and the phrase has become synonymous with low-paid and high stress work, dictatorial supervisors and an enforced dearth of union organisation. However, rarely does the public have access to the true picture of what goes on in these institutions.
For Working the Phones, Jamie Woodcock worked undercover in a call centre to gather insights into the everyday experiences of call centre workers. He shows how this work has become emblematic of the shift towards a post-industrial service economy, and all the issues that this produces, such as the destruction of a unionised work force, isolation and alienation, loss of agency and, ominously, the proliferation of surveillance and control which affects mental and physical well being of the workers.
By applying a sophisticated, radical analysis to a thoroughly international 21st century phenomenon, Working the Phones presents a window onto the methods of resistance that are developing on our office floors, and considers whether there is any hope left for the modern worker today.

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Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Working in the Call Centre
3. Management
4. Moments of Resistance
5. Precarious Organisation
6. Conclusion
Notes
References
Index

关于作者

Jamie Woodcock is a researcher based in London. He is the author of The Gig Economy (Polity Press, 2019),  Marx at the Arcade (Haymarket, 2019), and Working The Phones (Pluto, 2016). His research focuses on labour, work, the gig economy, platforms, resistance, organising, and videogames.

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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 208 ● ISBN 9781786800152 ● 文件大小 0.7 MB ● 出版者 Pluto Press ● 市 London ● 国家 GB ● 发布时间 2016 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 5011144 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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