{"product_id":"a-nation-on-the-line-9780822370475","title":"A Nation on the Line","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJan M. Padios examines the massive call center industry in the Philippines in the context of globalization, race, gender, transnationalism, and postcolonialism, outlining how it has become a significant site of efforts to redefine Filipino identity and culture, the Philippine nation-state, and the value of Filipino labor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As an example of the transnational turn in Asian American studies, Padios’s book gives us insight into how work is being reinvented, and the ways in which this reinvention has muddled distinctions between the United States and a place like the Philippines.\" -- Min Hyoung Song * Public Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"Jan M. Padios describes with colorful detail the ways that neoliberalism draws upon Filipino\/American relatability to garner profits, cheaply pay Filipinos, and serve U.S.-based customers within the call center industry.\" -- Giselle Cunanan * Ethnic and Racial Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Nation on the Line\u003c\/i\u003e is relevant to audiences interested in Filipino diasporic migrations, transnational Filipino identities, and transnational labor studies writ large. The author provides an analysis of the global political economy that echoes other work on the production and management of global Filipino labor; however, this work simultaneously lends a clarity to the subjective identities and affective and relational aspect of labor that has yet to be fully explored among this group of workers.\" -- Fumilayo Showers * American Journal of Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is an important contribution towards understanding how the new communication technologies are affecting everyday life in the Philippines. . . . It is stylistically excellent, and Padios presents complex and revealing truths in deceptively simple language.\" -- Raul Pertierra * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Listening Between the Lines: Relational Labor, Productive Intimacy, and the Affective Contradictions of Call Center Work  34\u003cbr\u003e 2. Contesting Skill and Value: Race, Gender, and Filipino\/American Relatability in the Neoliberal Nation-State  63\u003cbr\u003e 3 Inside Vox Elite: Call Center Training and the Limits of Filipino\/American Relatability  93\u003cbr\u003e 4. Service with a Style: Aesthetic Pleasures, Productive Youth, and the Politics of Consumption  131\u003cbr\u003e 5. Queering the Call Center: Sexual Politics, HIV\/AIDS, and the Crisis of (Re)Production  157\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion  181\u003cbr\u003e Notes  189\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  213\u003cbr\u003e Index  225","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406108795223,"sku":"9780822370475","price":90.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822370475.jpg?v=1730494564","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-nation-on-the-line-9780822370475","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}