{"product_id":"my-sisters-telegraphic-thomas-c-jepsen-9780821413432","title":"My Sisters Telegraphic: Women in the Telegraph Office, 1846-1950","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe role of the telegraph operator in the mid-nineteenth century was like that of today's software programmer\/analyst, according to independent scholar Tom Jepsen, who notes that in the \"cyberspace\" of long ago, male operators were often surprised to learn that the \"first-class man\" on the other end of the wire was a woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the computer, the telegraph caused a technological revolution. The telegraph soon worked synergistically with the era's other mass-scale technology, the railroad, to share facilities as well as provide communications to help trains run on time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe strategic nature of the telegraph in the Civil War opened opportunities for women, but tension arose as men began to return from military service. However, women telegraphers did not affect male employment or wage levels. Women kept their jobs after the war with support from industry--Western Union in particular--and because they defended and justified their role.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Although women were predominantly employed in lower-paying positions and in rural offices, women who persisted and made a career of the profession could work up to managerial or senior technical positions that, except for wage discrimination, were identical to those of their male counterparts,\" writes Jepsen. \"Telegraphy as an occupation became gendered, in the sense that we understand today, only after the introduction of the teletype and the creation of a separate role for women teletype operators.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Sisters Telegraphic\u003c\/i\u003e is a fresh introduction to this pivotal communications technology and its unsung women workers, long neglected by labor and social historians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas C. Jepsen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821413430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821413432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.21w x 0.87d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2000 pg. 159\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2001 pg. 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2001 pg. 2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/20\/2000","brand":"Thomas C. Jepsen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086964633855,"sku":"9780821413432","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0c908599-da80-44b5-8f61-894b8d20d757.jpg?v=1769097517","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/my-sisters-telegraphic-thomas-c-jepsen-9780821413432","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}