Globalization, governmentality and expertise: Creating a call centre labour force

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 650-674

  Lamer, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Call centres; Expertise; Globalization; Governmentality; Labour

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036874556     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: 14664526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0969229022000021844     Document Type: Article

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