Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Communication and Technology, 1850-1950

ISBN-13: 9780415931083 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 258 str.

Gregory J. Downey

Opis

Though providing a perspective on the telegraph system, a communications network that revolutionized human perceptions of time and space, this text's ramifications go far beyond just the telegraphy - it tells a broader story of human interaction with technology, and the social and cultural changes brought about by this interaction.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements 1. Why Telegraph Messenger Boys? 2. Western Union and the Inner-City Messengers 3. American District Telegraph and the Intra-City Messengers 4. The Spaces of Messenger Discipline 5. The Message and the Messenger 6. The Limits of Gender, Class and Age 7. The First Information Internetwork 8. They Myths of Education 9. From Union Joke to Union Man 10. The Telegram is Dead; Long Live the Messenger

O autorze

Gregory J. Downey