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Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980

Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980

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ISBN10: 082232573X
ISBN13: 9780822325734
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: May 2 2001
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Race on the Line is the first book to address the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. Venus Green-a former Bell System employee and current labor historian-presents a hundred year history of telephone operators and their work processes, from the invention of the telephone in 1876 to the period immediately before the break-up of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1984. Green shows how, as technology changed from a manual process to a computerized one, sexual and racial stereotypes enabled management to manipulate both the workers and the workplace.

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