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

Author/creator Yates, JoAnne, 1951-
Format Book
Publication InfoBaltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Descriptionx, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesStudies in industry and society
Studies in industry and society. ^A139718
Contents Insurance at the turn of the twentieth century -- First impressions of tabulating, 1890-1910 -- The push towards printing, 1910-1924 -- Insurance associations and the flowering of the tabulator era -- Early engagement between insurance and computing -- Insurance adoption and use of the early computers -- Incremental migration during the 1960s and 1970s -- Case studies in insurance computing : New England Mutual Life and Aetna .
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [333]-340) and index.
LCCN 2004022319
ISBN0801880866 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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