Language Skill And Job Market

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k at work. She said that even their language is commodified. Now the Francophone are those people who speak French as their native language and also speak English which is their second language. They do the job of receiving phone calls from various French speaking customers not just from Canada but from any other place around the globe which has business affiliates with those Canadian companies. Where as on the other hand the Anglophones are those who just speak English when at work and doing the same tasks that Francophones do. Thus, in the present case scenario where globalization has taken place in almost every developed industrialized nation, in Canada too, these Francophones have gained much more importance over the Anglophones in due course of time.
The situation of these Francophones was not the same in the past, until 1980 when Canada shifted from industrialized nation to a more service sector economy with more communications technology spreading all over the country. In the past, these Francophones used to work as labors in those industries, where they were treated like slaves and were disrespected and gi...