Unions and Information, Britain 1900-1960: An Essay in the History of Information
In: International review of social history, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 395-417
ISSN: 0020-8590
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In: International review of social history, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 395-417
ISSN: 0020-8590
In: International review of social history, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 395-417
ISSN: 1469-512X
This article examines the use of information by British trade unions to react to occupational change. Using a case study of the response to welding by the Boilermakers' Society, it looks at the barriers that prevented the use of information. It then examines the rise of trade union research departments. This leads to an outline of a framework for looking at the ways in which trade unions used information, based on their attitude towards their environment. The article suggests that an "information perspective" is a useful supplement to existing ways of examining trade union history which may shed new light on their development.
In: International review of social history, Band 48, Heft S11, S. 225-261
ISSN: 1469-512X
As co-editor of this IRSH supplement "Uncovering Labour in Information Revolutions", I have to begin this commentary with a confession. Before I entered the world of abstract knowledge production, commodification, and consumption known as academia, I was myself a worker in a world of much more concrete information processing: I was a computer programmer in the US from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, a time we might now consider the nostalgic heyday of desktop-office information technology (IT). In the spirit of full disclosure, before I leap into an analysis of how we might more broadly conceptualize information technology together with information labor in different historical contexts, I have decided to work through my own historical narrative a bit. After all, if historical practice teaches us nothing else, it teaches that each of us makes sense of the world through the lens of personal experience, leaving historians (among others) with the daunting task of interpreting, translating, and finding patterns of meaning in those experiences. Thus I offer this candid admission: "I was a teenage information worker!"
In: International review of social history, Band 48, S. 225-261
ISSN: 1469-512X
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