Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Tables; List of Figures; Abbreviations; One Why Telegraph Messenger Boys?; Two Western Union and the Intercity Messengers; Three American District Telegraph and the Intracity Messengers; Four The Spaces of Messenger Discipline; Five The Message and the Messenger; Six The Limits of Gender, Class, and Age; Seven Boundary Workers in an Information Internetwork; Eight The Myths of Education; Nine From Union Joke to Union Man; Ten The Telegram Is Dead; Long Live the Messenger; Notes; About the Author; Index
Summary
In Telegraph Messenger Boys Gregory J. Downey provides an entirely new perspective on the telegraph system: a communications network that revolutionized human perceptions of time and space. The book goes beyond the advent of the telegraphy and tells a broader story of human interaction with technology and the social and cultural changes it brought about
