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Poster, Winifred R Who's on the Line? Indian Call Center Agents Pose as Americans for US-outsourced Firms 2007 Article Call Centres, Capitalism Globalisation, Call Centre, Outsourcing, Firms, Information Technology, American Context, India, Customer Service, Ethnicity, Ethnography, Emotion Management, Identity
Citation Poster, Winifred R 2007 Article Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society Globalisation Call Centre Outsourcing Firms Information Technology American Context India Customer Service Ethnicity Ethnography Emotion Management Identity Call Centres Capitalism

"Who's on the Line? Indian Call Center Agents Pose as Americans for US-outsourced Firms"

by Poster, Winifred R (2007)

Abstract

This paper explores the globalization of service work through an analysis of customer service call centers in India for US firms. It reveals a new kind of managerial strategy,“national identity management,” in which employees are asked to subsume different …

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Globalisation, Call Centre, Outsourcing, Firms, Information Technology, American Context, India, Customer Service, Ethnicity, Ethnography, Emotion Management, Identity

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Call Centres, Capitalism

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