Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing / / Marie Hicks

• Autore: Hicks Marie
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2017]; [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2017]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 PDF (x, 342 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 331.40941/09045
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Programmed inequality
• ISBN: 0-262-34293-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910260627103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: History of computing.