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Author Downey, Gregory John.

Title Telegraph messenger boys : labor, technology, and geography, 1850-1950 / Gregory J. Downey.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 2002.
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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  HE9753 .D69 2002    Available  ---
Description xiv, 242 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-236) and index.
Contents Why telegraph messenger boys? -- Western union and the intercity messengers -- American district telegraph and the intracity messengers -- The spaces of messenger discipline -- The message and the messenger -- The limits of gender, class, and age -- Boundary workers in an information internetwork -- The myths of education -- From union joke to union man -- The telegram is dead; long live the messenger.
Subject Messengers -- United States -- History.
Messengers.
United States.
History.
Telegraph -- United States -- Employees -- History.
Telegraph.
Employees.
ISBN 0415931088 alkaline paper
0415931096 paperback

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