Uncovering Labour in Information Revolutions, 1750–2000: Volume 11

Buch | Softcover

268 Seiten

2003
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-54353-8 (ISBN)

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This volume explores the role, position and divisions of information and communication labour through periods of revolutionary technological change. Contributions range from eighteenth-century German clerical work, through Indian telegraph workers' actions in 1908 to the role of volunteer work in the early development of the World Wide Web.

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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.12.2003
Reihe/Serie	International Review of Social History Supplements
Zusatzinfo	10 Halftones, unspecified
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 229 mm
Gewicht	463 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-521-54353-3 / 0521543533
ISBN-13	978-0-521-54353-8 / 9780521543538
Zustand	Neuware