Television At Work - Industrial Media and American Labor

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kit Hughes, Kit (Assistant Professor of Media and Visu Hughes, Kit (Assistant Professor of Media and Visual Culture Hughes
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780190855796
• ISBN: 978-0-19-085579-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; USA, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Communication / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Social & cultural history, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Communication Studies, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Sociology: work & labour, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, Media, Information & Communication Industries, Sociology: work and labour