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

9780262266857 (electronic bk.)
0262266857 (electronic bk.)
0585481180 (electronic bk.)
9780585481180 (electronic bk.)
9780262012027
0262012022

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003.

English

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QA76.9.G68 A33 2003eb

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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 expertise. The deployment of machines was an attempt to gain control over state action - a revolutionary move.
Agar shows how mechanization followed the popular depiction of government as machine-like, with British civil servants cast as components of a general-purpose "government machine"; indeed, he argues that today's general-purpose computer is the apotheosis of the civil servant."--Jacket.

Agar shows how mechanization followed the popular depiction of government as machine-like, with British civil servants cast as components of a general-purpose "government machine"; indeed, he argues that today's general-purpose computer is the apotheosis of the civil servant."--Jacket.

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