Television at work : industrial media and American labor / Kit Hughes.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190855826 (ebook) :Subject(s): Television in management -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Industrial television -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Labor -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Industrial management -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190855789DDC classification: 651.79 LOC classification: HD30.34 | .H74 2019Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This text explores how work, television, and waged labour come to have meaning in our everyday lives by describing the forgotten history of twentieth century workplace television. Analyzing how businesses used television to shape employees' relationships to their labour in order to secure industrial efficiency and support corporate expansion, 'Television at Work' challenges long-held understandings of the 'domestic' medium. It also offers a critical prehistory of the use of digital technologies to extend the workday and advance understandings of labour that revolve around dehumanized technological systems and information flows.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | 1 | Available |
Due to be issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This text explores how work, television, and waged labour come to have meaning in our everyday lives by describing the forgotten history of twentieth century workplace television. Analyzing how businesses used television to shape employees' relationships to their labour in order to secure industrial efficiency and support corporate expansion, 'Television at Work' challenges long-held understandings of the 'domestic' medium. It also offers a critical prehistory of the use of digital technologies to extend the workday and advance understandings of labour that revolve around dehumanized technological systems and information flows.
Specialized.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 19, 2019).