1-800-Worlds: The Making of the Indian Call Centre Economy

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Mathangi Krishnamurthy (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India)

1-800-Worlds

The Making of the Indian Call Centre Economy

Mathangi Krishnamurthy (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India)

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OUP India
25 December 2017

Cultural studies; Sociology: work & labour; Working patterns & practices

1-800-Worlds chronicles the labour practices, life-worlds, and media atmospheres of Indian call centre workers, and locates them within the socio-political context of the new Indian middle classes. Through a thick description of the nightly and daily routines of transnational Indian call centre workers, it reads the call centre world as a set of indicators to understand changing forms of urban Indian middle-classness. Based on twenty-one months of ethnographic research in Pune, a prominent university town, this book investigates how young men and women between the ages of 18 and 25 became the ideal worker population for the call centre industries. Replete with stories of subjects who work through the night, sleep during the day, and listen to foreign voices in accented tongues over transnational telephone connections, it is rooted in the simultaneous spectrality and bodily intelligibility of call centre lives.

By: Mathangi Krishnamurthy (Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Indian Institute of Technology Madras India)
Imprint: OUP India
Dimensions: Height: 224mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 362g
ISBN: 9780199476053
ISBN 10: 0199476055
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 25 December 2017
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Figures Acknowledgements 1: A Call Centre Story 2: Trespassers Will be Recruited 3: Nocturne 4: Eliza Doolittle 5: The Affective Corporation 6: Afterword Bibliography Index About the Author

Mathangi Krishnamurthy is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. She is currently pursuing a project on bodily imaginations in relation to new genetic diagnostic technologies. Her areas of interest include the anthropology of work and gender, medical anthropology, urban studies, globalization, and affective labour. She has published on questions of English language usage, the anthropology of work, and the anthropology of gender.