ABSTRACT

This essay recovers the communication pedagogy that the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) developed as part of their outreach to immigrant men in the industries in the early-20th-century U.S.A. It brings into focus how the YMCA's teaching techniques negotiated the relation between labor and labor power by configuring sound, speech, and class subjectivity in a way that put in motion a form of productive affect. From this material history, the essay prompts reflection on the ways that sound continues to configure ever-shifting modes of productivity and exploitation, inviting scholars to critically consider the role of communication pedagogy in the evolving contexts of capitalism.

摘要

本文回顾了青年基督教徒协会（YMCA）在其对20世纪早期美国各行各业中的移民男子的宣传中发展起来的交流教学法。它使YMCA的教学技术如何协调劳资之间的关系成为焦点。通过配置声音，语音和班级主观性，以某种形式产生生产性情感的方式来实现劳动力。从这段物质的历史中，本文促使人们反思声音继续构成生产力和剥削的不断变化的方式的方式，邀请学者批判性地考虑传播教育学在资本主义不断发展的背景下的作用。