Code Girls: The Hidden Labor System Behind World War II Codebreaking
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
This episode explores Code Girls by Liza Mundy as a systems-level analysis of wartime cryptanalysis, gendered labor, and the emergence of industrial-scale intelligence processing.
The discussion examines how thousands of women became part of a distributed information system that helped break enemy communications during World War II. It also looks at the deeper structure beneath that history: labor segregation, military secrecy, bureaucratic scaling, feedback loops, and the transition from individual codebreaking…
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