Aad Blok / Greg Downey (eds.)

Uncovering Labour in Information Revolutions, 1750-2000

Herausgeber: Blok, Aad; Downey, Greg

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Discussion of the current Information Revolution tends to focus on technological developments in information and communication and overlooks both the human labor involved in the development, maintenance and daily use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), and the consequences of implementing these ICTs. This volume corrects this imbalance by exploring the role, position and divisions of information and communication labor through periods of revolutionary technological change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 393g
• ISBN-13: 9780521543538
• ISBN-10: 0521543533
• Artikelnr.: 21100535

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Aad Blok and Greg Downey; 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 Electronic 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 Containerisation 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; The Place of Labor in the
History of Information Technology Revolutions Greg Downey.