Format:
x, 342 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9780262035545
Series Statement:
History of computing
Content:
Introduction: Britain's computer "revolution" -- War machines : women's computing work and the underpinnings of the data-driven state 1930-1946 -- Peacetime data processing : institutionalizing a feminized machine underclass 1946-1954 -- Luck and labor shortage : gender, professionalization, and opportunities for computer workers -- 1958-1969 -- The rise of the technocrat : how state attempts to centralize power through computing went -- Astray 1967-1971 -- The end of white heat and the failure of British technocracy, 1970-1979 -- Conclusion: re-assembling the history of computing to show gender's formative role -- Bibliography
Note:
Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 295-329
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Hicks, Mar Programmed inequality Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2017 ISBN 9780262342933
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Hicks, Mar Programmed inequality Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, 2017 ISBN 9780262342940
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Datenverarbeitung
;
Beruf
;
Frau
;
Diskriminierung
;
Großbritannien
;
Computer
