{"product_id":"television-at-work-kit-hughes-9780190855796","title":"Television at Work: Industrial Media and American Labor","description":"Television has never been exclusive to the home. In \u003cem\u003eTelevision at Work\u003c\/em\u003e, Kit Hughes explores the forgotten history of how U.S. workplaces used television to secure industrial efficiency, support corporate expansion, and manage the hearts, minds, and bodies of twentieth century workers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChallenging our longest-held understandings of the medium, Hughes positions television at the heart of a post-Fordist reconfiguration of the American workplace revolving around dehumanized technological systems. Among other things, business and industry built private television networks to distribute programming, created complex CCTV data retrieval systems, encouraged the use of videotape for worker self-evaluation, used video cassettes for training distributed workforces, and wired cantinas for employee entertainment. In uncovering industrial television as a prolific sphere of media practice, \u003cem\u003eTelevision at Work \u003c\/em\u003ereveals how labor arrangements and information architectures shaped by these uses of television were foundational to the rise of the digitally mediated corporation and to a globalizing economy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kit Hughes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0190855797\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190855796\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/06\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2021","brand":"Kit Hughes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988813185279,"sku":"9780190855796","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f54db33c-aae6-4f28-ab42-cb9950d73183.jpg?v=1683296538","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/television-at-work-kit-hughes-9780190855796","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}