Συγγραφέας
Τύμπας Αριστοτέλης
Τίτλος
From the Display of a Digital-Masculine Machine to the Concealed Analog-Feminine Labour: The Passage from the History of Technology to Labour and Gender History
Περιοδικό
Historein: A review of the past and other stories
Τεύχος
19(1)
Έτος
2020
Σύνδεσμος
https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.19134
Περίληψη (Συγγραφέα)
The article introduces the essentialist 1940s demarcation between a digital-superior and an analog-inferior computer as a key moment in severing the computing machine from the human worker labouring with it, and, accordingly, to keeping the history of computing technology and the history of computing labour apart. It starts with a section that further argues that the introduction of this key demarcation is strongly linked to the transition from the prewar use of the concept “computer”, which referred to a human worker, to its postwar use, which refers to a computing machine. The argument comes full circle by connecting the concealed analog to hidden female computing labour, a connection suggested by a revisiting of the paradigmatic display of the ENIAC as a digital machine. There follow two sections, one on the history of the female labour concealed by presenting the digital computer as superior and the other on the history of the male labour neglected by ignoring the analog computer as inferior.
Λέξεις-Κλειδιά (Συγγραφέα)
Technology, Computing Labour Analog, Digital Gender Analogue
Ετικέτες
Ανισότητες και διακρίσεις στην εργασία
Επιστημονικό Πεδίο
Ιστορία
Παρατηρήσεις
Ειδικό Τεύχος “Global Labour History: Perspectives from East to West, from North to South”. Επιμέλεια: Δήμητρα Λαμπροπούλου, Λήδα Παπαστεφανάκη, Νίκος Ποταμιάνος.
Βιβλιογραφική Αναφορά
Tympas, A. (2020). From the Display of a Digital-Masculine Machine to the Concealed Analog-Feminine Labour: The Passage from the History of Technology to Labour and Gender History. Historein: a review of the past and other stories, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.19134