Social movement in Telecommunications: Rethinking the public service history of US telecommunications 1894-1919

Dan Schiller

Telecommunications Policy, 1998, vol. 22, issue 4-5, 397-408

Abstract: Between 1894 and 1919 the U.S. telecommunications industry underwent a fundamental policy shift, from unprecedented private competition to regulated monopoly. This metamorphosis expressed not an evolving consensus, but a complex series of social conflicts over the structure and purpose of telecommunications. The most important outcome of these conflicts was to curtail grassroots political mobilizations to intervene in telecommunications policymaking.

Date: 1998
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