The government machine : a revolutionary history of the computer / Jon Agar.

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"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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Main Author: Agar, Jon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003.
Series:History of computing.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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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