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Hicks Marie |
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Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing / / Marie Hicks |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2017] |
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[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2017] |
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1 PDF (x, 342 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Women - Employment - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
Sex discrimination in employment - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
Electronic data processing - Great Britain - History |
Technocracy |
Electronic data processing |
Sex discrimination in employment |
Women - Employment |
Computers |
History |
Great Britain |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: Britain's computer "revolution" -- War machines: women's computing work and the underpinnings of the data-driven state, 1930-1946 -- Data processing in peacetime: institutionalizing a feminized machine underclass, 1946-1955 -- Luck and labor shortage: gender flux, professionalization, and growing opportunities for computer workers, 1955-1967 -- The rise of the technocrat: how state attempts to centralize power through computing went astray, 1965-1969 -- The end of white heat and the failure of British technocracy, 1969- 1979 -- Conclusion: reassembling the history of computing around gender's formative influence -- Bibliography. |
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