Please see below for a new book likely to be of interest to many members. ______________________ Mar Hicks, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History of Technology Humanities Department Illinois Institute of Technology marhicks.com *Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing *www.programmedinequality.com ___________________________________________________________ *For students: *Do you want to schedule an appointment to talk to me during online office hours? Please use this link: https://calendly.com/marhicks ____________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: UC Press <enews@ucpress.edu> Date: Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 5:37 PM Subject: [Ext] Why technology, sexuality, and labor were so intertwined in 19th century London To: MHICKS1@IIT.EDU <MHICKS1@iit.edu> [image: University of California Press] <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=1391746c-3711-4886-a971-5f81f2a98692&id=4aedb25d-2025-eb11-9a4b-000c29140d8a&u=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ucpress.edu%2f> A rich historical case study of labor and exploitation in information and communication systems. [image: Wired World] <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=79dee22d-ffa2-444d-8501-b22961c4db37&id=4aedb25d-2025-eb11-9a4b-000c29140d8a&u=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ucpress.edu%2fbook%2f9780520344730%2f> Serving a Wired World: London's Telecommunications Workers and the Making of an Information Capital <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=d794ad3b-091f-463c-8181-2d850a87f65c&id=4aedb25d-2025-eb11-9a4b-000c29140d8a&u=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ucpress.edu%2fbook%2f9780520344730%2f> by Katie Hindmarch-Watson November 2020 Hardcover: $29.95 288 pages 9 b/w illustrations <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=8f8022ee-50be-4c52-a4f7-7f2eef9c52f4&id=4aedb25d-2025-eb11-9a4b-000c29140d8a&u=https%3a%2f%2fcontent.ucpress.edu%2ftitle%2f9780520344730%2f9780520344730_intro.pdf> Read an Excerpt <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=0dec0ddc-d02f-42ed-8f35-cf375a66e325&id=4aedb25d-2025-eb11-9a4b-000c29140d8a&u=https%3a%2f%2fcontent.ucpress.edu%2ftitle%2f9780520344730%2f9780520344730_intro.pdf> <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=a4b449a0-d745-4e07-b398-e316a5e85263&id=4aedb25d-2025-eb11-9a4b-000c29140d8a&u=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ucpress.edu%2fdiscipline%2fhismaj%2f> Browse Related Titles <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=a71e1c65-2e3f-4bdd-bfcb-c7e5c764d211&id=4aedb25d-2025-eb11-9a4b-000c29140d8a&u=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ucpress.edu%2fdiscipline%2fhismaj%2f> Save 30% <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=7067e906-a8b0-474b-aaf4-a0f051ee1120&id=4aedb25d-2025-eb11-9a4b-000c29140d8a&u=https%3a%2f%2fingramcart.supadu.com%2fcart%2fbuy%2f9780520344730%3fclient_id%3d19> Enter code 20W2896 at check out About the Book *Serving a Wired World* is a history of information service work embedded in the daily maintenance of liberal Britain and the status quo in the early years of the twentieth century. As Katie Hindmarch-Watson shows, the administrators and engineers who crafted these telecommunications systems created networks according to conventional gender perceptions and social hierarchies, modeling the operation of the networks on the dynamic between master and servant. 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