Автор: Hicks Marie Название: Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing ISBN: 0262535181 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262535182 Издательство: MIT Press Рейтинг: Цена: 22570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This "sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias" explores how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women (Harvard Magazine) 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, Mar 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.
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Автор: De Ville Monique Название: The Ultimate Cst Study Guide for Surgical Technologists ISBN: 0985376554 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780985376550 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 52050.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Название: Bringing Communities Together: Connecting Learners with Scientists or Technologists ISBN: 9460917909 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789460917905 Издательство: Brill Рейтинг: Цена: 119540.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Over recent years connective partnerships between educational communities and sectors outside of education have become increasingly popular. One significant reason behind this popularity has the expansion of information and communication technologies which have increased access and provided mechanisms for ongoing connections to be made between differing worlds. But… successful connections that cross cultural boundaries are not easy to establish and even harder to maintain in ways that are mutually beneficial.This book focuses on science and technology connective ventures and the complexity inherent in bringing such worlds together. . The authors have been ‘in the business’ of developing such connections and this book brings them together to describe how and why making connections can support the science/technology education sector, the technology/science communities, and the wider sociocultural life we all inhabit. A range of illustrative examples of connections-in-action provide an empirical basis from which to explore and gain insight into the issues for and potential of such connective ventures, alongside a rich mix of critical commentary, arguments, cautions and challenges.Five key principles have been distilled from the collective experience and wisdom of the authors, serving to capture that which underpins effective and efficient connective initiatives. Each principle is accompanied by a set of questions that reflect the issues raised and successes illustrated throughout the book. It is hoped these principles and questions will serve to guide people interested in developing, funding and/or participating in future connective initiatives in the fields of science and technology.
Автор: Brunton Finn Название: Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency ISBN: 0691179492 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691179490 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 23230.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: "The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators, from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies."--Provided by publisher.
Автор: Nel W. P. Название: Management for Engineers, Technologists and Scientists ISBN: 0702186880 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780702186882 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 44390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: An introductory-level management textbook written specifically for those studying and working in an engineering discipline. This updated third edition includes a new chapter on engineering ethics and professionalism as well as a workbook on CD.
Автор: Matthew Pearl Название: The Technologists ISBN: 0099512769 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099512769 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 15830.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: A race against time. Spring 1868, and the population of Boston is being terrorised by a series of mysterious attacks: first a magnetic storm causes ships in the harbour to collide in flames, then in another bizarre catastrophe every piece of glass in the financial district spontaneously melts - clocks, windows, eyeglasses.
