The government machine : a revolutionary history of the computer /

"In The Government Machine Jon Agar traces the mechanization of government work in the United Kingdom from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. He argues that this transformation has been tied to the rise of "expert movements," groups whose authority has rested on their e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Agar, Jon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003.
Colección:History of computing.
Temas:
Groḃritannien > Government
Computers > Government policy > Great Britain > History.
Public administration > Great Britain > Data processing > History.
Civil service > Effect of technological innovations on > Great Britain > History.
Civil service > Employees > Effect of technological innovations on > Great Britain > History.
Ordinateurs > Politique gouvernementale > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Administration publique > Grande-Bretagne > Informatique > Histoire.
Fonction publique > Personnel > Effets des innovations sur > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Administration publique (Science) > Grande-Bretagne > Informatique > Histoire.
COMPUTERS > History.
Computers > Government policy.
Public administration > Data processing.
Verwaltung
Datenverarbeitung
Geschichte
Politik
Computers.
Overheidsinstellingen.
Organisatieverandering.
Arbeid.
Great Britain.
Groḃritannien
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-BrittanniŁe en Noord-Ierland.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology
COMPUTER SCIENCE/General
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The state of knowledge
  • The machineries of government
  • "The parent of a totally different order of things" : Charles Trevelyan and the civil service as machine
  • "Chaotic England" and the organized world : official statistics and expert statisticians
  • "One universal register" : fantasies and realities of total knowledge
  • The office machinery of government
  • An information war
  • The military machine?
  • Treasury organization and methods and the computerization of government work
  • Privacy and distrust
  • Computers and experts in the hollowed-out state, 1970-2000.

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