Serving a Wired World: London's Telecommunications Workers and the Making of an Information Capital Volume 17

by Katie Hindmarch-Watson

In the public imagination, Silicon Valley embodies the newest of the new--the cutting edge, the forefront of our social networks and our globally interconnected lives. But the pressures exerted on many of today's communications tech workers mirror those of a much earlier generation of laborers in a very different space: the London workforce that helped launch and shape the massive telecommunications systems operating at the turn of the twentieth century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520344731
• ISBN13: 9780520344730
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"