Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing / M...
Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing / M...
Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing / Marie Hicks.
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Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2017.
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G 2018/3877
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English
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x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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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...
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Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2017.
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Massachusetts
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2017.
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"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...
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Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing / Marie Hicks.
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History of computing
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/3877
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74VKVAXGmOBO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVAXGmOBO
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0262035545 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262035545 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
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331.4094109045
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991024175115102626
