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082 0 4 _a331.40941/09045
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100 1 _aHicks, Marie,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aProgrammed inequality :
_bhow Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing /
_cMarie Hicks.
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bThe MIT Press,
_c[2017]
264 2 _a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] :
_bIEEE Xplore,
_c[2017]
300 _a1 PDF (x, 342 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aelectronic
_2isbdmedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aHistory of computing
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
506 _aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
530 _aAlso available in print.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web
588 _aPrint version record.
648 7 _a1900-1999
_2fast
650 0 _aWomen
_xEmployment
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aSex discrimination in employment
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aElectronic data processing
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory.
650 0 _aTechnocracy.
650 7 _aElectronic data processing.
_2fast
650 7 _aSex discrimination in employment.
_2fast
650 7 _aTechnocracy.
_2fast
650 7 _aWomen
_xEmployment.
_2fast
650 2 _aComputers.
651 7 _aGreat Britain.
_2fast
655 7 _aHistory.
_2fast
655 4 _aElectronic books.
695 _aAustralia
695 _aAutomation
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695 _aBibliographies
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695 _aComputer industry
695 _aComputers
695 _aConsumer electronics
695 _aContext
695 _aCorporate acquisitions
695 _aData processing
695 _aEconomics
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695 _aEngineering profession
695 _aEthics
695 _aForce
695 _aGovernment
695 _aHardware
695 _aHeat treatment
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695 _aHistory
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695 _aIndustrial relations
695 _aIndustries
695 _aLow earth orbit satellites
695 _aPresses
695 _aResistance heating
695 _aSoftware
695 _aStandards
695 _aTraining
695 _aWeapons
710 2 _aIEEE Xplore (Online Service),
_edistributor.
710 2 _aMIT Press,
_epublisher.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aHicks, Marie.
_tProgrammed inequality.
_dCambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
_z9780262035545
_w(DLC) 2016021258
_w(OCoLC)954037938
830 0 _aHistory of computing.
856 4 2 _3Abstract with links to resource
_uhttp://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=7904022
999 _c39757
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