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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hicks, Mar author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Description:	x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	History of computing History of computing.
Subject:	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. Technocracy. Women -- Employment. Computers. Great Britain. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10990764

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ISBN:	9780262035545 0262035545
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Britain's Computer "Revolution"
1. War Machines: Women's Computing Work and the Underpinnings of the Data-Driven State, 1930-1946
2. Data Processing in Peacetime: Institutionalizing a Feminized Machine Underclass, 1946-1955
3. Luck and Labor Shortage: Gender Flux, Professionalization, and Growing Opportunities for Computer Workers, 1955-1967
4. The Rise of the Technocrat: How State Attempts to Centralize Power through Computing Went Astray, 1965-1969
5. The End of White Heat and the Failure of British Technocracy, 1969-1979
Conclusion: Reassembling the History of Computing around Gender's Formative Influence
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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