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- ISBN
- 9780821413449
- Book Title
- My Sisters Telegraphic : Women in the Telegraph Office, 1846-1950
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Language Arts & Disciplines, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Women, Communication Studies, Women's Studies, Telecommunications
- Item Weight
- 14.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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The role of the telegraph operator in the mid-nineteenth century was like that of today's software programmer/analyst, according to independent scholar Tom Jepsen, who notes that in the "cyberspace" of long ago, male operators were often surprised to learn that the "first-class man" on the other end of the wire was a woman. Like the computer, the telegraph caused a technological revolution. The telegraph soon worked synergistically with the era's other mass-scale technology, the railroad, to share facilities as well as provide communications to help trains run on time. The strategic nature of the telegraph in the Civil War opened opportunities for women, but tension arose as men began to return from military service. However, women telegraphers did not affect male employment or wage levels. Women kept their jobs after the war with support from industry--Western Union in particular--and because they defended and justified their role. "Although women were predominantly employed in lower-paying positions and in rural offices, women who persisted and made a career of the profession could work up to managerial or senior technical positions that, except for wage discrimination, were identical to those of their male counterparts," writes Jepsen. "Telegraphy as an occupation became gendered, in the sense that we understand today, only after the introduction of the teletype and the creation of a separate role for women teletype operators." My Sisters Telegraphic is a fresh introduction to this pivotal communications technology and its unsung women workers, long neglected by labor and social historians.
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Publisher
Ohio University Press
ISBN-10
0821413449
ISBN-13
9780821413449
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Book Title
My Sisters Telegraphic : Women in the Telegraph Office, 1846-1950
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Women, Communication Studies, Women's Studies, Telecommunications
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Language Arts & Disciplines, History, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Lccn
00-040654
Dewey Decimal
331.4/813841/0973
Lc Classification Number
Hd6073.T252u65 2000
Copyright Date
2000
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