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The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries

By James W. Cortada

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2003
ISBN
0-19-516588-8
Open Library ID
OL15585180M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6335417 bytes)
Edition
1st Ed.
Pages
513\513
Topic
Education
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34

Description

This book describes how computers were used in 16 American industries over the past half century to determine what were the critical uses, how technologies came into these industries, and how they were changed by it. This book asserts that computing profoundly changed the nature of work in these industries, creating the bedrock of the Information Age.

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