Newsworkers, technology, and journalism history

This paper explores the absence of a labor perspective in journalism history by focusing on the relationship between newsworkers and technology. The result is a view of mainstream journalism history as supporting an ideological status quo. The author suggests a cultural history of journalism that embraces the concerns of a working class history and the understanding of a critical social theory to help provide answers about the status of intellectual work, cultural production, and the nature of class consciousness under conditions of technological advancement in the United States.