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- Book Title
- Serving a Wired World : London's Telecommunications Workers and the Making of an Information Capital
- Publication Name
- Serving a Wired World
- Title
- Serving a Wired World
- EAN
- 9780520344730
- ISBN
- 9780520344730
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Hardcover
- Release Year
- 2020
- Release Date
- 10/11/2020
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 20.8 Oz
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- London's Telecommunications Workers and the Making of an Informat
- ISBN-10
- 0520344731
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Series
- Berkeley Series in British Studies
- Genre
- Business & Economics, History, Political Science
- Topic
- Labor & Industrial Relations, Economics / General, Europe / Great Britain / General
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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In the public imagination, Silicon Valley embodies the newest of the new--the cutting edge, the forefront of our social networks and our globally interconnected lives. But the pressures exerted on many of today's communications tech workers mirror those of a much earlier generation of laborers in a very different space: the London workforce that helped launch and shape the massive telecommunications systems operating at the turn of the twentieth century. As the Victorian age ended, affluent Britons came to rely on information exchanged along telegraph and telephone wires for seamless communication: an efficient and impersonal mode of sharing thoughts, demands, and desires. This embrace of seemingly unmediated communication obscured the labor involved in the smooth operation of the network, much as our reliance on social media and app interfaces does today. Serving a Wired World is a history of information service work embedded in the daily maintenance of liberal Britain and the status quo in the early years of the twentieth century. As Katie Hindmarch-Watson shows, the administrators and engineers who crafted these telecommunications systems created networks according to conventional gender perceptions and social hierarchies, modeling the operation of the networks on the dynamic between master and servant. Despite attempts to render telegraphists and telephone operators invisible, these workers were quite aware of their crucial role in modern life, and they posed creative challenges to their marginalized status--from organizing labor strikes to participating in deviant sexual exchanges. In unexpected ways, these workers turned a flatly neutral telecommunications network into a revolutionary one, challenging the status quo in ways familiar today.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520344731
ISBN-13
9780520344730
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7038311259
Product Key Features
Book Title
Serving a Wired World : London's Telecommunications Workers and the Making of an Information Capital
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Labor & Industrial Relations, Economics / General, Europe / Great Britain / General
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Business & Economics, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
17
Lc Classification Number
Hd8039.T242g75 2020
Reviews
Serving a Wired World juxtaposes in colorful ways the varied tensions of the period: between administrators and workers, privacy and mediation, female and male employees, good boys and bad ones, order and rebellion. . . . Today's information workers may recognize some of these tensions, particularly in how library labor is both integral and invisibilized in library operations and how administrative decisions inform public discourse on the labor of information.
Table of Content
List of Figures Acknowledgment Introduction 1 * Dispatches from Underground 2 * The Public Service of Discretion 3 * Gendering the Central Telegraph Office 4 * Bodied Telegraphy 5 * Unintended Networks 6 * Tapped Wires 7 * Martial Mercuries 8 * Voices on the Wires Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2020
Lccn
2020-011739
Dewey Decimal
331
Series
Berkeley Series in British Studies
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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