[lbo-talk] Painful truth of the call centre cyber coolies

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

> 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