Below you will find all of the Media Metadata Inventories for each of the articles organized by the last name of the author. These files are essential to showing the rights permissions and sources of each of the pieces of media displayed in this online exhibit. The inventories are saved as spreadsheets and provide a […]

Citing this exhibit McDonald, Kate, ed. People-Works: The Labor of Transport. 2018. https://t2m.org/publications/people-works-the-labor-of-transport. Accessed [MONTH] [DATE], [YEAR]. Citing an exhibit module Hart, Jennifer. “African Automobility: Mammy Trucks in Twentieth-Century Ghana.” In People-Works: The Labor of Transport, ed. Kate McDonald. 2018. https://t2m.org/people-works/the-labor-of-transport-of-the-messengers-of-the-nations-of-the-university-of-paris-in-the-fifteenth-century/  Accessed [MONTH] [DATE], [YEAR]. Citing a specific page Williams, Robin. “Street Pavements Before Asphalt.” […]

Lee Vinsel, Virginia Tech List of Panels How Can Danger Go Unnoticed? Crash Tests as Necessary Work Instrumenting a Car for Crashing How to Standardize a Wall Fiat’s Non-Conforming Testing Grounds Keeping Dangerous Technologies Off the Road Image 1: Introduction Figure 1. A Parking Lot Full of Cars That Were Traded in Because They Contained Defective […]

Roger Turner, Science History Institute List of Panels Knowing Weather (Module Intro) Theorizing a Three-Dimensional Atmosphere A Model Airline Weather Service The Weather Man at Washington Meteorological “Labor?” Pilots Observe the Upper Air The Labor behind Instruments Airline Meteorologists at Work Aviation Meteorologists during World War II Advertising Airline Meteorology Aviation Shapes the TV Weather […]

Robin B. Williams, Savannah College of Art and Design Introduction Street Pavements before Asphalt The Labor of Street Paving Cleaning Streets Heritage Work The paving of streets with macadam, blocks or bricks represented a vital development in the modernization of cities beginning in the nineteenth century. It also represented the product of extensive and often highly […]

Jennifer Hart, Wayne State University This exhibit uses a technological object – the “mammy truck” – as a framework to explore the various forms of labor that shaped a mobility system in twentieth-century Ghana.  Motor transportation is a frequent topic of conversation on the streets of contemporary African metropolises and rural villages. Passengers and politicians […]

Andrew Urban, Rutgers University List of Panels Immigrant or Sailor? Assigning Legal Status in the Era of Exclusion (Module Intro) Asian Labor and Global Shipping During the Long Nineteenth Century Wages, Nativism, and Chinese Seamen Regulating and Policing Sailors’ Shore Leave Intermediaries: Brokers, Bondsmen, and Other Service Providers Anti-Chinese Activism in San Francisco and Great […]