Author: American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Work and Opportunity in the Bell System
Author: American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A Unique Competence
Author: American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Equal Opportunity and Full Employment
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Equal Opportunities
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Full employment policies
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Full employment policies
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Race on the Line
Author: Venus Green
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822383101
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Race on the Line is the first book to address the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. Venus Green—a former Bell System employee and current labor historian—presents a hundred year history of telephone operators and their work processes, from the invention of the telephone in 1876 to the period immediately before the break-up of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1984. Green shows how, as technology changed from a manual process to a computerized one, sexual and racial stereotypes enabled management to manipulate both the workers and the workplace. More than a simple story of the impact of technology, Race on the Line combines oral history, personal experience, and archival research to weave a complicated history of how skill is constructed and how its meanings change within a rapidly expanding industry. Green discusses how women faced an environment where male union leaders displayed economic as well as gender biases and where racism served as a persistent system of division. Separated into chronological sections, the study moves from the early years when the Bell company gave both male and female workers opportunities to advance; to the era of the “white lady” image of the company, when African American women were excluded from the industry and feminist working-class consciousness among white women was consequently inhibited; to the computer era, a time when black women had waged a successful struggle to integrate the telephone operating system but faced technological displacement and unrewarding work. An important study of working-class American women during the twentieth century, this book will appeal to a wide audience, particularly students and scholars with interest in women’s history, labor history, African American history, the history of technology, and business history.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822383101
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Race on the Line is the first book to address the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. Venus Green—a former Bell System employee and current labor historian—presents a hundred year history of telephone operators and their work processes, from the invention of the telephone in 1876 to the period immediately before the break-up of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1984. Green shows how, as technology changed from a manual process to a computerized one, sexual and racial stereotypes enabled management to manipulate both the workers and the workplace. More than a simple story of the impact of technology, Race on the Line combines oral history, personal experience, and archival research to weave a complicated history of how skill is constructed and how its meanings change within a rapidly expanding industry. Green discusses how women faced an environment where male union leaders displayed economic as well as gender biases and where racism served as a persistent system of division. Separated into chronological sections, the study moves from the early years when the Bell company gave both male and female workers opportunities to advance; to the era of the “white lady” image of the company, when African American women were excluded from the industry and feminist working-class consciousness among white women was consequently inhibited; to the computer era, a time when black women had waged a successful struggle to integrate the telephone operating system but faced technological displacement and unrewarding work. An important study of working-class American women during the twentieth century, this book will appeal to a wide audience, particularly students and scholars with interest in women’s history, labor history, African American history, the history of technology, and business history.
Equal Opportunity in Employment
Author: United States Civil Service Commission. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Annotated bibliography of materials received in the USA civil service commission library during 1971 and 1972 on equal opportunity in respect of employment opportunity.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Annotated bibliography of materials received in the USA civil service commission library during 1971 and 1972 on equal opportunity in respect of employment opportunity.
Heritage & Destiny
Author: Alvin Von Auw
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The author was vice president-assistant to the chairman of AT&T from 1969 to 1981. He gives an insider's account of the Bell System. During this time much of the Bell System's mission came from him. He also played a key role in the development of the company's strategic planning and decision-making processes by which it sought to shape its future.
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The author was vice president-assistant to the chairman of AT&T from 1969 to 1981. He gives an insider's account of the Bell System. During this time much of the Bell System's mission came from him. He also played a key role in the development of the company's strategic planning and decision-making processes by which it sought to shape its future.
Annual Report
Author: United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Hearings Before the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Religious Accommodation
Author: United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Personnel Literature
Author: United States. Office of Personnel Management. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Monthly Labor Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.