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\n In the public imagination, Silicon Valley embodies the newest of the new\u2014the cutting edge, the forefront of our social networks and our globally interconnected lives. But the pressures exerted on many of today\u2019s 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\u00a0the 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2014from 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.<\/p>\n

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ASIN \u200f : \u200e B08J99VLP9
Publisher \u200f : \u200e University of California Press; 1st edition (November 10, 2020)
Publication date \u200f : \u200e November 10, 2020
Language \u200f : \u200e English
File size \u200f : \u200e 6582 KB
Text-to-Speech \u200f : \u200e Enabled
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Print length \u200f : \u200e 288 pages <\/p>\n

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