Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres (Wildcat) - Tapa blanda

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Woodcock, Jamie

 
9780745399065: Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres (Wildcat)
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ISBN 10: 0745399061 ISBN 13: 9780745399065
Editorial: Pluto Press, 2016

Sinopsis

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 wellbeing 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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Acerca del autor

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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Editorial
Pluto Press
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0745399061
ISBN 13 
9780745399065
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Número de páginas
208
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