TY  - GEN
N2  - "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.
N2  - 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.
AB  - "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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - The government machine :a revolutionary history of the computer /
DA  - 2003.
CY  - Cambridge, Mass. :
AU  - Agar, Jon.
CN  - QA76.9.G68
PB  - MIT Press,
PP  - Cambridge, Mass. :
PY  - 2003.
ID  - 1387257
KW  - Computers
KW  - Public administration
KW  - Civil service
KW  - SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology
KW  - COMPUTER SCIENCE/General
SN  - 9780262266857
SN  - 0262266857
SN  - 0585481180
SN  - 9780585481180
TI  - The government machine :a revolutionary history of the computer /
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