| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
The persistence of [a] vision : the electronically mediated corporation prehistory -- "To extend vision beyond the horizon, to see the unseen" : industrial television in the post-war era flow -- Frankly boring and agonizingly slow : television moves to the office immediacy -- The other format wars : cartridges, cassettes, and making home work time-shifting -- "The people's network" : soft management with satellite business television narrowcasting |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Due to be issued in print: 2020 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 19, 2019) |
| Subject |
Television in management -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Industrial television -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Labor -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Industrial management -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Industrial management
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Industrial television
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Labor
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Television in management
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190855826 |
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0190855827 |
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