Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania operators in 1945. By that point, the process of automating telephone operation was well underway. Dylan Matthews is a senior correspondent and head writer for Vox’s Future Perfect section and has worked at Vox since 2014. He is particularly interested in global health and pandemic prevention, anti-poverty efforts, economic policy and theory, and conflicts about the right way to do philanthropy.
If you were a young (white) woman looking for work in the early 1920s, you could do worse than becoming a telephone operator.
In the early 1920s, AT&T, the telephone monopoly that grew out of […]
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