Description: Further DetailsTitle: Serving a Wired WorldCondition: NewEAN: 9780520344730ISBN: 9780520344730Publisher: University of California PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/10/2020Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 28mmItem Weight: 590gAuthor: Katie Hindmarch-WatsonLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: London's Telecommunications Workers and the Making of an Information CapitalISBN-10: 0520344731Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USBook Series: Berkeley Series in British StudiesGenre: HistoryTopic: Law & Politics, Language & Reference, Business & FinanceRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Serving a Wired World
Title: Serving a Wired World
EAN: 9780520344730
ISBN: 9780520344730
Release Date: 11/10/2020
Release Year: 2020
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
Book Title: Serving a Wired World : London's Telecommunications Workers and the Making of an Information Capital
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 1.1 in
Topic: Labor & Industrial Relations, Economics / General, Europe / Great Britain / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Weight: 20.8 Oz
Author: Katie Hindmarch-Watson
Item Length: 9 in
Book Series: Berkeley Series in British Studies
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
