Uncovering Labour in Information Revolutions, 1750-2000: Volume 11 Paperback / softback
Edited by Aad (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam) Blok, Greg (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Downey
Part of the International Review of Social History Supplements series
Paperback / softback
Description
Discussion of the current Information Revolution tends to focus on technological developments in information and communication and overlooks both the human labour involved in the development, maintenance and daily use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), and the consequences of the implementation of these ICTs for the position and divisions of labour.
This volume aims to redress this imbalance by exploring the role, position and divisions of information and communication labour in the broadest sense through periods of revolutionary technological change.
The contributions range from eighteenth-century German clerical work, through Indian telegraph workers' actions in 1908, computing labour in early twentieth-century US electrical engineering, the impact of containerization and ICT on South-African stevedores and international seafarers, to the development of the computer programmer, labour organization in Silicon Valley, and the role of volunteer work in the early development of the World Wide Web.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:268 pages, 10 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:15/12/2003
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- ISBN:9780521543538
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:268 pages, 10 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:15/12/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521543538
