Race on the Line

Race on the Line is one of the best historical studies so far on the anatomy of racism. Venus Green demonstrates how the Bell System, aided by labor unions and compliant workers, bent technology to serve its white corporate interests. Focusing on telephone operators, Green argues that the dominant culture's racial and gender ideologies saturated the development and deployment of telephone technology and the organization of work. Intrigued by the patterns of gender and race segregation she observed while working for the New York Telephone Company between 1974 and 1990, she undertook this study as a graduate student at Columbia. Her scholarly skills combined with her personal experience make this book special

Ideology · Management · Political science · Politics · Race (biology) · Racism · Sociology · White (mutation) · Gender Studies · History of Computing Technologies · ICT Impact and Policies · Law