ANTB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Neoliberalism, Call Centre, Westernization
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Fordist: technology being put together to create an end product. With technology has come theories about where the world is going: our ideas about what. *for next assignment: gender/sex labour, the book, globalization etc is important in life; our very identities are being transformed. Technology has revolutionized the way in which we interact; less of a need for intimate/face- to-face encounters; time is no longer an issue because transportation is no longer an issue. Themes: time, space, and sociality call centres bring out these themes. Call centres receive phone calls from english-speaking countries. Time and space are compressed: through giddens or harley, there is no need for intimate encounters and we can be simultaneously be at the same place and the same time while being in different time zones. Post-fordist: information is networked and no longer in a place; labour is outsourced (labour not just in place where product produced)
