| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 145 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Latinidad: transnational cultures in the United States |
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Latinidad.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Why Latinas? -- Overlapping technology histories -- The invisible information worker -- Latinas on the line -- We were family -- The telecommunications life cycle: Lorraine: The case study |
| Summary |
"Latinas on the Line provides a compelling analysis and historical and theoretical grounding of the oral histories, never before seen, of Latina information workers in the Bell System from their entrance in 1973 to their retirements by 2015. Author Melissa Villa-Nicholas demonstrates the importance of Latinas of the field of telecommunications through their own words and uses supporting archival research to provide an overview of how Latinas engage and remember a critical analysis of their work place, information technologies, and the larger globalized economy and shifting borderlands through their intersectional identities as information workers. The book offers a rich and engaging portrait of the critical history of Latinas in telecommunications, from their manual to automated to digitized labor"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hispanic American women -- Employment -- United States -- History
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Telecommunication -- United States -- Employees -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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Hispanic American women -- Employment
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Telecommunication -- Employees
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781978813755 |
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1978813759 |
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