Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"
Serving a Wired World juxtaposes in colorful ways the varied tensions of the period: between administrators and workers, privacy and mediation, female and male employees, good boys and bad ones, order and rebellion. . . . Today’s information workers may recognize some of these tensions, particularly in how library labor is both integral and invisibilized in library operations and how administrative decisions inform public discourse on the labor of information." * College & Research Libraries *
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Serving a Wired World… provides a diverse range of sources and insightful analysis to present a rich account of the experiences and activities of telegraphists, telegraph boys, and telephonists." * Technology and Culture *
Table of ContentsList of Figures
Acknowledgment
Introduction
1 • Dispatches from Underground
2 • The Public Service of Discretion
3 • Gendering the Central Telegraph Office
4 • Bodied Telegraphy
5 • Unintended Networks
6 • Tapped Wires
7 • Martial Mercuries
8 • Voices on the Wires
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
