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Structuring the information age : life insurance and technology in the twentieth century / JoAnne Yates.
Lippincott Library HG8951 .Y38 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yates, JoAnne, 1951-
- Series:
- Studies in industry and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Life insurance--United States--History.
- Life insurance.
- Life insurance--Technological innovations.
- United States.
- History.
- Information technology--History.
- Information technology.
- Computers--History.
- Computers.
- Physical Description:
- x, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
- Contents:
- Insurance in the pre-computer era : 1900-1940s
- Institutional context for information processing in early 20th century life insurance
- First impressions and first uses : insurance and tabulating, 1890-1911
- The push towards printing : tabulating technology and insurance, 1910-1924
- Insurance associations and the flowering of the tabulator era
- Insurance enters the computer era : 1940s-1970s
- Early engagement between life insurance and computing
- Insurance adoption and use of the earliest commercial computers : the 1950s
- Ongoing incremental migration : insurance use of computers into the 1970s
- Case studies in insurance computing : New England Life and Aetna
- Conclusion: structuring the information age.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-340) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801880866
- OCLC:
- 56608222
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