Uncovering Labour in Information Revolutions, 1750-2000: Volume 11Aad Blok, Greg Downey Cambridge University Press, 15 dec 2003 - 261 pagina's 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. |
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 1 |
Clerical Work in the First Information Society | 13 |
Indias First Virtual Community and the Telegraph General Strike of 1908 | 45 |
Computing Electric Power Transmission Before the Electronic Computer | 73 |
The Transformation of Stevedoring Work in Durban Between 1970 and 1990 | 97 |
The Contradictory Effects of ICT and Containerization on International Shipping Labour | 123 |
Technology and the Politics of Organizational Transformation | 153 |
Guilds and NextGeneration Unionism in the Information Revolution | 181 |
The Case of America Online Volunteers | 205 |
The Place of Labor in the History of InformationTechnology Revolutions | 225 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
administration African analysis AOL volunteers apartheid argued artificial line associations automation Bombay calculating Calcutta Calenberg Cambridge capital cargo century clerical community leaders computer programmers computing labor computors containerization context corporate Culture Dies's Durban early economy electric power transmission electrical engineering electronic computer emerging employees employment ENIAC example fund global guilds History of Computing Ibid increasing increasingly India Indian Telegraph industry Information Age information labor Information Revolution Information Society information technology infrastructure innovation Internet involved Kennelly knowledge Kritter labor market Labour Supply Company machine Manuel Castells neoliberal network analyzer occupational officers operations organization organizational port Port of Rotterdam production professional programming role Rotterdam seafarers signallers Silicon Valley skills software crisis South Africa staff stevedoring strike suggested technical technicians Telegraph Department terminal Tetra Treasury Committee unions vessel wages workers workplace York
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