[lbo-talk] Painful truth of the call centre cyber coolies
Wojtek Sokolowski
sokol at jhu.edu
Tue Nov 1 07:51:47 PST 2005
> Painful truth of the call centre cyber coolies
>
> Amelia Gentleman in Noida, India
>
> Sunday October 30, 2005
> The Observer
> These agents, the researcher states, are employed under constant
> surveillance, in an atmosphere similar to that in '19th-century prisons or
> Roman slave ships'. Despite the relatively high salaries, and modern
working
> environments, the study concludes that 'most of these youngsters are in
fact
> burning out their formative years as "cyber coolies",' doing low-end jobs.
>
In this context it is worthwhile to quote the following passage from George
Orwell (Marrakech):
>But there is one thought which every white man (and in this connection
it doesn't matter twopence if he calls himself a Socialist) thinks when
he sees a black army marching past. "How much longer can we go on
kidding these people? How long before they turn their guns in the other
direction?"<
Wojtek
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