Commentary
The Place of Labor in the History of Information-Technology Revolutions
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 9969366 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Greg Downey (0009-0001-5877-4717) |
| Año | 2003 |
| Volumen | 48 |
| Número | S11 |
| Páginas | 225-261 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2003-10-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | International Review of Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0020-8590 • E-ISSN: 1469-512X |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020859003001330 |
| OpenAlex | W2078917583 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 3 |
| Referencias citadas | 36 |
As co-editor of this IRSH supplement “Uncovering Labour in Information Revolutions”, I have to begin this commentary with a confession. Before I entered the world of abstract knowledge production, commodification, and consumption known as academia, I was myself a worker in a world of much more concrete information processing: I was a computer programmer in the US from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, a time we might now consider the nostalgic heyday of desktop-office information technology (IT). In the spirit of full disclosure, before I leap into an analysis of how we might more broadly conceptualize information technology together with information labor in different historical contexts, I have decided to work through my own historical narrative a bit. After all, if historical practice teaches us nothing else, it teaches that each of us makes sense of the world through the lens of personal experience, leaving historians (among others) with the daunting task of interpreting, translating, and finding patterns of meaning in those experiences. Thus I offer this candid admission: “I was a teenage information worker!”
Art · Commodification · Confession (law · Consumption (sociology · Economics · Economy · Epistemology · Information Age · Information technology · Literature · Meaning (existential · Media studies · Narrative · Nothing · Political science · Programmer · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · History · History of Computing Technologies · Law · Philosophy
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How Computers Have Changed the Wage Structure
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
The Jobless Future
Technics and Civilization
From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism
A Social History of Knowledge
Women, social skill and interactive service work in telephone call centres
Management, technology and work in commercial broadcasting, c. 1979–98
The impact of information technology on ‘traditional’ occupations
Telework and the Information Age
The Deindustrialization of America
Neoliberalizing Space
They all believe they are undiscovered Mary Pickfords
Beyond the Typewriter
Invisible Stars
The Visible Hand
Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981
From Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory
Print Culture in a Diverse America
America Calling
Computers in the Wild”
Unions and Information, Britain 1900–1960
The Tender Technicians
Staffing Newspapers and Training Journalists in Early Soviet Russia
Understanding media
The Nature of the Book
Virtual Webs, Physical Technologies, and Hidden Workers
When Computers Were Women
When information came of age
Technology's Storytellers
The Condition of Postmodernity
Homework
The Coming of Post-Industrial Society
High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy
| Obras citantes distintas | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 0,2 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 2 |