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Television at Work - Industrial Media and American Labor (Hardcover)
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Television at Work - Industrial Media and American Labor (Hardcover)
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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.
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