In The Mid-nineteenth Century, Women Entered A Challenging, Competitive Technological Field - The Telegraph Industry. They Competed Directly With Men, Demanding And Occasionally Getting Equal Pay. Women Telegraphers Made Up A Subculture Of Technically Educated Workers Whose Skills, Mobility, And Independence Set Them Apart From Their Contemporaries. My Sisters Telegraphic Is An Accessible And Fascinating Study Designed To Fill In The Missing History Of Women Telegraph Operators - Their Work, Their Daily Lives, Their Workplace Issue - By Using Nontraditional Sources, Including The Telegraphers' Trade Journals, Company Records, And Oral And Written Histories Of The Operators Themselves. It Includes An Analysis Of Telegraph Romance, A Largely Forgotten Genre Of Popular Literature That Grew Up Around The Women Operators And Their Work. This Study Also Explores The Surprising Parallels Between The Telegraphy Of The Nineteenth Century And The Work Of Women In Technical Fields Today. The Telegrapher's Work, Like That Of The Modern Computer Programmer, Involved Translating Written Language Into Machine-readable Code. And Anticipating The Internet By Over One Hundred Years, Telegraphers Often Experienced The Gender-neutral Aspect Of The Cyberspace They Inhabited.--jacket. Women In The Telegraph Industry -- The Entry Of Women Into The Telegraph Industry In The United States -- Women Telegraphers In Canada And Europe -- Women And The Telegraph In The Non-european World -- Women In The Telegraph Industry In The Twentieth Century -- Daily Life In The Telegraph Office -- Life In The Depot Office -- Morse Keys And Bugs -- Life In The Commercial Office -- The Working Environment -- Working Hours -- Introduction Of The Teletype -- Occupational Hazards -- Society And The Telegraph Operator -- Social Class -- Ethnicity -- Schooling -- Reasons For Entering The Workforce -- Demographic Composition Of The Workforce -- Social Life -- Travel -- Religious, Social, And Civic Organizations -- Telegraphic Competitions -- Family And Marriage -- Women's Issues In The Telegraph Office -- The Entry Of Women Into Telegraphy In The United States And The Debate In The Telegrapher -- The Entry Of Women Into Telegraphy In Europe -- Women's Issues In The Telegraph Office In The United States In The 1870s -- Gendered Behavior In The Workplace -- Equal Pay -- Women As Business Entrepreneurs -- Office Politics: The Case Of Lizzie Snow -- Sex And Morality In The Telegraph Office -- Women Telegraphers In Literature And Cinema -- Portrayal Of Women Telegraphers In Literature -- Women Telegraphers In The Cinema -- Women Telegraphers And The Labor Movement -- The Telegraphers' Protective League And The Strike Of 1870 -- Women And The Labor Movement In Europe -- The Brotherhood Of Telegraphers And The Strike Of 1883. Thomas C. Jepsen. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

motw/My Sisters Telegraphic - Thomas C. Jepsen.pdf

My sisters telegraphic : women in the telegraph office, 1846-1950

United States, United States of America

Athens, Ohio, 2000

Memory of the World Librarian: marcell mars

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-222) and index

"In the mid-nineteenth century, women entered a challenging, competitive technological field - the telegraph industry. They competed directly with men, demanding and occasionally getting equal pay. Women telegraphers made up a subculture of technically educated workers whose skills, mobility, and independence set them apart from their contemporaries.".
"My Sisters Telegraphic is an accessible and fascinating study designed to fill in the missing history of women telegraph operators - their work, their daily lives, their workplace issue - by using nontraditional sources, including the telegraphers' trade journals, company records, and oral and written histories of the operators themselves. It includes an analysis of "telegraph romance," a largely forgotten genre of popular literature that grew up around the women operators and their work.".
"This study also explores the surprising parallels between the telegraphy of the nineteenth century and the work of women in technical fields today. The telegrapher's work, like that of the modern computer programmer, involved translating written language into machine-readable code. And anticipating the Internet by over one hundred years, telegraphers often experienced the gender-neutral aspect of the "cyberspace" they inhabited."--BOOK JACKET.

The 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.

Aandacht voor de positie van vrouwelijke telegrafisten, hun dagelijks leven, arbeidsomstandigheden, vakbonden en stakingen, het einde van het telegrafie-tijdperk en het belang van het herontdekken van hun geschiedenis

2025-10-27