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A Nation on the Line. Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines

Who takes the phone and solves your fucking problem?

The call center industry has grown to over one million employees in the Philippines, who for decades have struggled to create jobs. In a new book, the question is asked about what it means to solve problems, often for unreasonable people across the globe – all night long.
Nina Trige Andersen -

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