telephone operator
1 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 31, 2024 by Ethan Mollick · across every show →
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Jul 31, 2024 neutral
Mollick: 1930s switchboard automation permanently displaced older operators
“When the telephone switchboards went from sort of manual to digital in the starting, or not digital at that point, but mechanical in the 19, starting in the 19 thirties, At that point, I think one out of every 16 women had spent time as a telephone operator. I…”