1973
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American Telephone and Telegraph
archival research
AT&T
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automated
Bell System
Bell Telephone Company
blue and white collar field
broadcasting
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communications
data entry
digitized labor
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Equal Employment Opportunities Committee
field engineers
gender
information labor positions.
information technologies
Information Workers
intersectional identities
labor studies
Latina
Latina history of technology
oral histories
race
social constructions of technology
telecommunications
telephone
telephone operators
Product details
- ISBN 9781978813724
- Weight: 3g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jan 2022
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Latinas on the Line provides a compelling analysis and historical and theoretical grounding of the oral histories, never before seen, of Latina information workers in the Bell System from their entrance in 1973 to their retirements by 2015. Author Melissa Villa-Nicholas demonstrates the importance of Latinas of the field of telecommunications through their own words and uses supporting archival research to provide an overview of how Latinas engage and remember a critical analysis of their work place, information technologies, and the larger globalized economy and shifting borderlands through their intersectional identities as information workers. The book offers a rich and engaging portrait of the critical history of Latinas in telecommunications, from their manual to automated to digitized labor.
MELISSA VILLA-NICHOLAS is an assistant professor at the Harrington School of Media and Communications and the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Rhode Island. Her publications include "Data Body Milieu: The Latinx immigrant at the center of technological development" in Feminist Media Studies and "Missing Cells: The Growing Economic Value of Immigrant and Refugee Biological Data" in Bitch Media.
