| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 145 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Latinidad: transnational cultures in the United States
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Latinidad.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Why Latinas? -- Overlapping technology histories -- The invisible information worker -- Latinas on the line -- We were family -- The telecommunications life cycle: Lorraine: The case study. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hispanic American women -- Employment -- United States -- History.
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Hispanic American women -- Employment. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Telecommunication -- United States -- Employees -- History.
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Telecommunication. |
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Employees. |
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Hispanic American women. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. |
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Telecommunication -- Employees. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Villa-Nicholas, Melissa. Latinas on the line. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022] 9781978813717 (DLC) 2021015635 (OCoLC)1245472914 |
| ISBN |
9781978813755 (electronic book) |
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1978813759 (electronic book) |
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9781978813717 (paperback) |
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1978813716 (paperback) |
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9781978813724 (hardcover) |
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1978813724 (hardcover) |
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