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MIT Press, The MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
342

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Subjects

Sex discrimination in employment, Technocracy, Electronic data processing, History, Employment, Women, Women, employment, great britain, Computers, Women in technology, Computer industry, great britain, Computer industry, Employees, Industry

Places

Great Britain

Times

20th century
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Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
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Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
2017, MIT Press
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Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
2017, MIT Press
in English
Cover of: Programmed Inequality
Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
2017, MIT Press
in English
Cover of: Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
2017, The MIT Press
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Programmed inequality: how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-329) and index.

Series
History of computing

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
331.40941/09045
Library of Congress
HD6135 .H53 2017, HD6135.H53 2017

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x, 342 pages
Number of pages
342

Edition Identifiers

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OL27237661M
ISBN 10
0262035545
ISBN 13
9780262035545
LCCN
2016021258
OCLC/WorldCat
954037938

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OL20057652W

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