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Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Office Appliances; The Magazine of Office Equipment
The Government Machine
Author: Jon Agar
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262292904
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
An examination of technology and politics in the evolution of the British "government machine." 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. Over the course of two centuries, government has become the major repository and user of information; the Civil Service itself can be seen as an information-processing entity. Agar argues that the changing capacities of government have depended on the implementation of new technologies, and that the adoption of new technologies has depended on a vision of government and a fundamental model of organization. Thus, to study the history of technology is to study the state, and vice versa.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262292904
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
An examination of technology and politics in the evolution of the British "government machine." 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. Over the course of two centuries, government has become the major repository and user of information; the Civil Service itself can be seen as an information-processing entity. Agar argues that the changing capacities of government have depended on the implementation of new technologies, and that the adoption of new technologies has depended on a vision of government and a fundamental model of organization. Thus, to study the history of technology is to study the state, and vice versa.
Office Machinery and Appliances
Author: Lawrence Robert Dicksee
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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The Law of Procedure
Author: William Nembhard Hibbert
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Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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British Finance During and After the War, 1914-21
Author: Alfred Herbert Gibson
Publisher: London ; Toronto : I. Pitman
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Category : Debts, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher: London ; Toronto : I. Pitman
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Category : Debts, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Pitman's Journal of Commercial Education
Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
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Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1694
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Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1694
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The United States Catalog
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2188
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2188
Book Description
System
Register of the University of California
Author: University of California (1868-1952)
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
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Publisher:
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
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