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OverviewIn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gregory J. DowneyPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.640kg ISBN: 9780415931083ISBN 10: 0415931088 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 15 May 2002 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsTelegraph Messenger Boys opens a scholarly window onto a little-explored world: not just that of the teenaged information workers of an earlier era, but that of the human side of any technological revolution. It suggests a rich vein of investigation into our own information age. <br>--Paul A. Soukup, S.J Santa Clara University <br> Drawing upon the techniques of history of science and contemporary human geography, Downey tells an amazing story of how a hitherto neglected labor force of mere boys pinned together the communication network of American cities for the best part of a century. This is interdisciplinary scholarship at its very best and pioneers an approach to understanding communication networks that has deep relevance to contemporary conditions.. <br>--David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York <br> This meticulously researched study reveals a hitherto neglected aspect of the geography of information technologies: the labor necessary to the construction of space-time. The book provides a fascinating glimpse into the lives of Telegraph Messenger boys, and how they were shaped by, and shaped, corporate struggles surrounding the evolution of the telegraph, norms of age and gender, urban morphologies, and labor struggles. By demonstrating that their work was crucial to the realization of telecommunications in the twentieth century, Downey points to the importance of software engineers, line operators, delivery services and couriers in the twenty-first century.. <br>--Eric Sheppard, Professor of Geography, University of Minnesota <br> This book could attract a broad readership. It would certainly become a must-read for graduate students andhistorians in the variety of fields on which it touches.[Downey's] analysis is original and his framework creative.. <br>--Susan Porter Benson, author of Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940 <br> This isa pioneering and insightful study - and a model of interdiscinplinary scholarship - that deserves a wide readership.. <br>-American Historical Review, December 2003 <br> Author InformationGregory J. Downey Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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