عنوان

Programmed inequality :

شابک

0262035545

شابک

0262535181

شابک

9780262035545

شابک

9780262535182

عنوان اصلي

Programmed inequality :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

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

نام نخستين پديدآور

Mar Hicks.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Cambridge, MA :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

MIT Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2017.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

x, 342 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

24 cm

عنوان فروست

History of computing

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

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, professionalization, and 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 to show gender's formative influence.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty years holds lessons for all postindustrial superpowers. As Britain struggled to use technology to retain its global power, the nation's inability to manage its technical labor force hobbled its transition into the information age. In Programmed Inequality, Marie Hicks explores the story of labor feminization and gendered technocracy that undercut British efforts to computerize. That failure sprang from the government's systematic neglect of its largest trained technical workforce simply because they were women. Women were a hidden engine of growth in high technology from World War II to the 1960s. As computing experienced a gender flip, becoming male-identified in the 1960s and 1970s, labor problems grew into structural ones and gender discrimination caused the nation's largest computer user--the civil service and sprawling public sector--to make decisions that were disastrous for the British computer industry and the nation as a whole. Drawing on recently opened government files, personal interviews, and the archives of major British computer companies, Programmed Inequality takes aim at the fiction of technological meritocracy. Hicks explains why, even today, possessing technical skill is not enough to ensure that women will rise to the top in science and technology fields. Programmed Inequality shows how the disappearance of women from the field had grave macroeconomic consequences for Britain, and why the United States risks repeating those errors in the twenty-first century."--Publisher's description.

موضوع مستند نشده

Electronic data processing-- Great Britain-- History.

موضوع مستند نشده

Sex discrimination in employment-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Technocracy.

موضوع مستند نشده

Women computer industry employees-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Women-- Employment-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Computers.

موضوع مستند نشده

Drahtschmiele

موضوع مستند نشده

Electronic data processing.

موضوع مستند نشده

Frau

موضوع مستند نشده

Informatik

موضوع مستند نشده

Sex discrimination in employment.

موضوع مستند نشده

Sexismus

موضوع مستند نشده

Technocracy.

موضوع مستند نشده

Women computer industry employees.

موضوع مستند نشده

Women-- Employment.

موضوع مستند نشده

Great Britain.

موضوع مستند نشده

Großbritannien

بدون عنوان

7

بدون عنوان

7

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Hicks, Mar

تاريخ عمليات

20200822104633.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y