ABSTRACT

In Telegraph Messenger Boys Gregory J. Downey provides an entirely new perspective on the telegraph system: a communications network that revolutionized human perceptions of time and space. The book goes beyond the advent of the telegraphy and tells a broader story of human interaction with technology and the social and cultural changes it brought about.

chapter 1|14 pages

Why Telegraph Messenger Boys?

chapter 2|24 pages

Western Union And The Intercity Messengers

How Schools Mediate the Influence of Social Class on Adolescent Development

chapter 3|22 pages

American District Telegraph And The Intracity Messengers

How Schools Mediate the Influence of Social Class on Adolescent Development

chapter 4|21 pages

The Spaces Of Messenger Discipline

chapter 5|21 pages

The Message and the Messenger

chapter 6|21 pages

The Limits of Gender, Class, and Age

chapter 8|21 pages

The Myths of Education

chapter 9|22 pages

From Union joke to Union Man