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Structuring the information age : life insurance and technology in the twentieth century / JoAnne Yates.

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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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