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Television at Work

By Kit Hughes

Television at Work

By Kit Hughes

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
314
Release Date:
2020-01-06
Publication Date:
2020-01-06
Publisher:
OXFORD UNIV PR
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0190855797
ISBN13:
9780190855796
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
480 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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