Television at Work
Industrial Media and American Labor
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 24 January 2020
- ISBN 9780190855796
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 155x234x22 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 25 0
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Short description:
This book explores how work, television, and waged labor 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 labor 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 labor that revolve around dehumanized technological systems and information flows.
MoreLong description:
Television has never been exclusive to the home. In Television at Work, Kit Hughes explores the forgotten history of how U.S. workplaces used television to secure industrial efficiency, support corporate expansion, and manage the hearts, minds, and bodies of twentieth century workers.
Challenging our longest-held understandings of the medium, Hughes positions television at the heart of a post-Fordist reconfiguration of the American workplace revolving around dehumanized technological systems. Among other things, business and industry built private television networks to distribute programming, created complex CCTV data retrieval systems, encouraged the use of videotape for worker self-evaluation, used video cassettes for training distributed workforces, and wired cantinas for employee entertainment. In uncovering industrial television as a prolific sphere of media practice, Television at Work reveals how labor arrangements and information architectures shaped by these uses of television were foundational to the rise of the digitally mediated corporation and to a globalizing economy.
Television at Work is a book rich in material, analysis, and original research. It eloquently maneuvers between small case studies of particular technologies and larger historical trends in the economy, management theories, and labor practices.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Persistence of [a] Vision: the Electronically Mediated Corporation
Prehistory
Chapter 2: "To extend vision beyond the horizon, to see the unseen": Industrial Television in the Post-War Era
Flow
Chapter 3: Frankly Boring and Agonizingly Slow: Television Moves to the Office
Immediacy
Chapter 4: The Other Format Wars: Cartridges, Cassettes, and Making Home Work
Time-shifting
Chapter 5: "The People's Network": Soft Management with Satellite Business Television
Narrowcasting
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
