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Latinas on the Line: Invisible Information Workers in Telecommunications brings to attention the histories of Latinas in telecommunications, demonstrating how these histories contribute to the larger canons on Latina labor, communications, race, gender, and social constructions of technology. Through their intersectional identities, Latinas in telecommunications offer particular insights to the history of telecommunications and their own ‘belonging’ within these technological spaces.
List of contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
List of 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
6 Conclusion
Appendix
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
MELISSA VILLA-NICHOLAS is an assistant professor at the Harrington School of Media and Communications and the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Rhode Island. Her publications include “Data Body Milieu: The Latinx immigrant at the center of technological development” in Feminist Media Studies and “Missing Cells: The Growing Economic Value of Immigrant and Refugee Biological Data" in Bitch Media.
Summary
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. The book offers a rich and engaging portrait of the critical history of Latinas in telecommunications.
