Latinas on the Line : : Invisible Information Workers in Telecommunications / / Melissa Villa-Nicholas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Villa-Nicholas, Melissa,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (144 p.) :; 3 b-w images, 1 table
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; INTRODUCTION --; 1 WHY LATINAS? overlapping technology histories --; 2 THE INVISIBLE INFORMATION WORKER --; 3 LATINAS ON THE LINE --; 4 WE WERE FAMILY --; 5 THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIFE CYCLE: Lorraine: a case study --; CONCLUSION --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781978813755; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993752; 9783110993738; 9783110766479
• DOI: 10.36019/9781978813755?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Melissa Villa-Nicholas.

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.