Crossed wires: the conflicted history of US telecommunications, from the post office to the internet
"During the first century of the republic, two modes of communication at a distance - telecommunications - were etched into lands inhabited by Native Americans; contested by rival European powers; and occupied by the United States. Both telecommunications systems supported this expanding US ter...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "During the first century of the republic, two modes of communication at a distance - telecommunications - were etched into lands inhabited by Native Americans; contested by rival European powers; and occupied by the United States. Both telecommunications systems supported this expanding US territorial empire but, despite this overarching commonality, they branched apart in other ways. One network was owned by the state and the other by capital, and the two branches of the telecommunications system developed disparate rate structures, patterns of access, and social and institutional relationships. During the decades after the Civil War their divergence became politically charged. Would one model prevail over the other? Going forward, would it be the government Post Office or the corporate telegraph that set the terms of telecommunications development? The Post Office was the nation's originating system for communication at a distance. Both before and long after it was elevated to a cabinet department in 1829, furthermore, the Post Office was by far the largest unit of the central state. In 1831, the nation's 8700 postmasters comprised three-quarters of federal civilian employment; half a century later (excluding temporary postal employees and ordinary and railway mail clerks and letter carriers), some 50,000 postmasters accounted for perhaps one-third of all civilian employees in the executive branch. Though its relative weight as a government employer diminished after this, its workforce continued to swell. During the last two antebellum decades, meanwhile, an emergent technology - the electrical telegraph - was passed quickly from the federal government to private capital. The two systems' institutional identities immediately began to contrast in other ways." |
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
IX
INTRODUCTION:
A MISSING
HISTORY
1
PART
I. ANTIMONOPOLY
1.
PATHS INTO
AN
IMPERIAL REPUBLIC:
POSTS
AND
TELEGRAPHS 19
2. ANTIMONOPOLY,
IN
THE
COUNTRY
AND
THE
CITY 73
3.
BUSINESS
REALIGNMENT,
FEDERAL
INTERVENTION,
CLASS CONFRONTATION
111
PART
II.
PUBLIC
UTILITY
4.
REACTIVATING
REFORM
157
5.
TELEGRAPH WORKERS IN
DEPRESSION
AND
WAR
217
6.
THE PUNISHING
PASSAGE
TO
TELEPHONE
UNIONISM
264
7.
CONSUMPTION
AND
PUBLIC
UTILITY
297
8. PATENTS
UNDER
PRESSURE,
1920S-1950S
344
9. ACTIVISTS
AND
DISSIDENTS:
THE
1960S
388
PART
III. DIGITAL
CAPITALISM
10. INNOVATION,
DISSENSUS,
AND
REACTION
FROM
ABOVE 451
11.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
AND
AMERICAN
EMPIRE
522
CONCLUSION
594
NOTES
611
INDEX
789
$
B1IOTHEK
DEUTSCHES
MUSEUM
HLUENCHE'A |
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
IX
INTRODUCTION:
A MISSING
HISTORY
1
PART
I. ANTIMONOPOLY
1.
PATHS INTO
AN
IMPERIAL REPUBLIC:
POSTS
AND
TELEGRAPHS 19
2. ANTIMONOPOLY,
IN
THE
COUNTRY
AND
THE
CITY 73
3.
BUSINESS
REALIGNMENT,
FEDERAL
INTERVENTION,
CLASS CONFRONTATION
111
PART
II.
PUBLIC
UTILITY
4.
REACTIVATING
REFORM
157
5.
TELEGRAPH WORKERS IN
DEPRESSION
AND
WAR
217
6.
THE PUNISHING
PASSAGE
TO
TELEPHONE
UNIONISM
264
7.
CONSUMPTION
AND
PUBLIC
UTILITY
297
8. PATENTS
UNDER
PRESSURE,
1920S-1950S
344
9. ACTIVISTS
AND
DISSIDENTS:
THE
1960S
388
PART
III. DIGITAL
CAPITALISM
10. INNOVATION,
DISSENSUS,
AND
REACTION
FROM
ABOVE 451
11.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
AND
AMERICAN
EMPIRE
522
CONCLUSION
594
NOTES
611
INDEX
789
$
B1IOTHEK
DEUTSCHES
MUSEUM
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