Book ID: CBB001180030

Uncovering labor in information revolutions, 1750--2000 (2003)

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Blok, Aad (Editor)
Downey, Greg (Editor)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2003
Physical Details: 261 pp.; ill.
Language: English

Description Contents: Introduction / Aad Blok -- Hands and minds: Clerical work in the first “information society” / Eve Rosenhaft -- India's first virtual community and the telegraph general strike of 1908 / Deep Kanta Lahiri Choudhury -- Perpetually laborious: Computing electric power transmission before the electric computer / Aristotle Tympas -- Breaking the buffalo: The transformation of stevedoring work in Durban between 1970 and 1990 / Bernard Dubbeld -- Compressing time and constraining space: The contradictory effects of ICT and containerization on international shipping labour / Helen Sampson and Bin Wu -- Letting the “computer boys” take over: Technology and the politics of organizational transformation / Nathan L. Ensmenger -- “Computers in the wild”: Guilds and next-generation unionism in the information revolution / Chris Benner -- Emerging sources of labor on the Internet: The case of America Online volunteers / Hector Postigo -- Commentary: The place of labor in the history of information-technology revolutions / Greg Downey. (from WorldCat) See:


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Chapter Downey, Greg (2003) The place of labor in the history of information technology revolutions. In: Uncovering labor in information revolutions, 1750--2000. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Pursell, Carroll W.
Cortada, James W.
Katie Hindmarch-Watson
Freeman, Joshua Benjamin
Steve Fraser
Mamo, Andrew Benedict
Concepts
Technology and society
Labor and laborers
Social class
Information technology
Environmentalism
Technology and gender
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
18th century
21st century
17th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Arkansas (U.S.)
England
London (England)
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Europe
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