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Wege in die Digitale Gesellschaft: Computernutzung in der Bundesrepublik 1955-1990 [Towards a digital society: Computer use in West Germany 1955-1990] ed. by Frank Bösch
Technology and Culture, 2020
Productivity Machines: German Appropriations of American Technology from Mass Production to Computer Automation
Technology and Culture, 2015
Built on the Hands of Women: Data, Automation, and Gender in West Germany's Financial Industry
Technology and Culture, 2023
Gender Is a Corporate Tool
The MIT Press eBooks, Mar 9, 2021
Toward International Computing History
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 2006
This essay advocates for international histories of computing that either compare computing in tw... more This essay advocates for international histories of computing that either compare computing in two or more countries or that investigate interactions between countries. While the first are suited to identify causal factors, the latter augment social and cultural histories.
Engineering International Expansion: IBM and Remington Rand in European Computer Markets
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Oct 1, 2008
US computer manufacturers-including IBM and Remington Rand-expanded into Europe after World War I... more US computer manufacturers-including IBM and Remington Rand-expanded into Europe after World War II. The companies overcame resistances and adjusted to different market conditions; how they did this, and why IBM succeeded more than others, is examined here. This article argues that IBM adeptly managed-or engineered-relationships with foreign governments and stakeholders through a European-wide manufacturing system and European research laboratories.
Shifting Uncertainties. The Self-Organization of Research Policy
Küppers G, Roth J, Schlombs C. Shifting Uncertainties. The Self-Organization of Research Policy. ... more Küppers G, Roth J, Schlombs C. Shifting Uncertainties. The Self-Organization of Research Policy. In: Dresner S, Gilbert N, eds. The Dynamics of European Science and Technology Policies. Burlington, USA: Aldershot; 2001: 7-27
Women, Gender and Computing: The Social Shaping of a Technical Field from Ada Lovelace’s Algorithm to Anita Borg’s ‘Systers’
Springer eBooks, 2022
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 2017
Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science after the Second World War
Isis
Weimar Rationalization Appropriates American Productivity
The MIT Press eBooks, 2019
Information & Culture, Feb 1, 2017
She has published on international computing and on computing and gender and is currently working... more She has published on international computing and on computing and gender and is currently working on a book on transatlantic transfers of productivity culture and technology in the two decades before and after World War II.
Productivity machines: Transatlantic transfers of computing technology and culture in the Cold War
The 20th century saw the slow but steady rise of the United States as a principal international p... more The 20th century saw the slow but steady rise of the United States as a principal international player. This study explores how the transfer of computer technology contributed to the rise of the United States as a political and economic power. To do so, it charts the cultural meaning of computers as they traveled across the Atlantic during the two decades following World War II. American government officers for the Marshall Plan and the executives of progressive corporations, including the two leading US computer manufacturers IBM and Remington Rand, formed a public-private partnership to transfer American business methods and machines to Europe. They intended American computers to increase the productivity of European economies by carrying the American values of free enterprise, cooperative industrial relations and integrated markets. While the Marshall Plan officers pursued a consensus-driven approach to technical aid, the two computer companies unilaterally integrated their European operations. Yet, they were united in their intent to instill productivity-mindedness in (Western) Europeans. But Europeans did not perceive of computers as productivity machines that promised higher standards of living; instead, they saw computers as automation technologies that threatened technological unemployment and socio-economic decline. Closer studies of the German insurance and banking industries show that Germans appropriated computers to the gender and labor relations in each industry. The largest insurance company in Germany, Allianz, rapidly adopted computer technology and a group of new college-educated managers appropriated control over the computer to position themselves among Allianz\u27s executive workforce. Also, they unsuccessfully sought for a technical solution to curb the growing ranks of female routine employees for data entry. The German banking industry, by contrast, delayed the introduction of computers to the late 1960s. In the meantime, German banks relied on part-time female employees for manual data entry and developed their own standard for automatic character recognition, thus devising a sociotechnical solution to the data entry problem. While computers were intended as means of Americanization that carried productivity to Europe, they were appropriated to existing corporate and political cultures in Germany
Built on the Hands of Women: Data, Automation, and Gender in West Germany's Financial Industry
Technology and Culture
Nutzungsbedingungen Die ETH-Bibliothek ist Anbieterin der digitalisierten Zeitschriften. Sie besi... more Nutzungsbedingungen Die ETH-Bibliothek ist Anbieterin der digitalisierten Zeitschriften. Sie besitzt keine Urheberrechte an den Inhalten der Zeitschriften. Die Rechte liegen in der Regel bei den Herausgebern. Die auf der Plattform e-periodica veröffentlichten Dokumente stehen für nicht-kommerzielle Zwecke in Lehre und Forschung sowie für die private Nutzung frei zur Verfügung. Einzelne Dateien oder Ausdrucke aus diesem Angebot können zusammen mit diesen Nutzungsbedingungen und den korrekten Herkunftsbezeichnungen weitergegeben werden. Das Veröffentlichen von Bildern in Print-und Online-Publikationen ist nur mit vorheriger Genehmigung der Rechteinhaber erlaubt. Die systematische Speicherung von Teilen des elektronischen Angebots auf anderen Servern bedarf ebenfalls des schriftlichen Einverständnisses der Rechteinhaber. Haftungsausschluss Alle Angaben erfolgen ohne Gewähr für Vollständigkeit oder Richtigkeit. Es wird keine Haftung übernommen für Schäden durch die Verwendung von Informationen aus diesem Online-Angebot oder durch das Fehlen von Informationen. Dies gilt auch für Inhalte Dritter, die über dieses Angebot zugänglich sind.
Wege in die Digitale Gesellschaft: Computernutzung in der Bundesrepublik 1955-1990 [Towards a digital society: Computer use in West Germany 1955-1990] ed. by Frank Bösch
Technology and Culture, 2020
Wege in die Digitale Gesellschaft: Computernutzung in der Bundesrepublik 1955-1990 [Towards a digital society: Computer use in West Germany 1955-1990] ed. by Frank Bösch
Technology and Culture, 2020
Productivity Machines: German Appropriations of American Technology from Mass Production to Computer Automation
Technology and Culture, 2015
Built on the Hands of Women: Data, Automation, and Gender in West Germany's Financial Industry
Technology and Culture, 2023
Gender Is a Corporate Tool
The MIT Press eBooks, Mar 9, 2021
Toward International Computing History
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 2006
This essay advocates for international histories of computing that either compare computing in tw... more This essay advocates for international histories of computing that either compare computing in two or more countries or that investigate interactions between countries. While the first are suited to identify causal factors, the latter augment social and cultural histories.
Engineering International Expansion: IBM and Remington Rand in European Computer Markets
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Oct 1, 2008
US computer manufacturers-including IBM and Remington Rand-expanded into Europe after World War I... more US computer manufacturers-including IBM and Remington Rand-expanded into Europe after World War II. The companies overcame resistances and adjusted to different market conditions; how they did this, and why IBM succeeded more than others, is examined here. This article argues that IBM adeptly managed-or engineered-relationships with foreign governments and stakeholders through a European-wide manufacturing system and European research laboratories.
Shifting Uncertainties. The Self-Organization of Research Policy
Küppers G, Roth J, Schlombs C. Shifting Uncertainties. The Self-Organization of Research Policy. ... more Küppers G, Roth J, Schlombs C. Shifting Uncertainties. The Self-Organization of Research Policy. In: Dresner S, Gilbert N, eds. The Dynamics of European Science and Technology Policies. Burlington, USA: Aldershot; 2001: 7-27
Women, Gender and Computing: The Social Shaping of a Technical Field from Ada Lovelace’s Algorithm to Anita Borg’s ‘Systers’
Springer eBooks, 2022
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 2017
Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science after the Second World War
Isis
Weimar Rationalization Appropriates American Productivity
The MIT Press eBooks, 2019
Information & Culture, Feb 1, 2017
She has published on international computing and on computing and gender and is currently working... more She has published on international computing and on computing and gender and is currently working on a book on transatlantic transfers of productivity culture and technology in the two decades before and after World War II.
Productivity machines: Transatlantic transfers of computing technology and culture in the Cold War
The 20th century saw the slow but steady rise of the United States as a principal international p... more The 20th century saw the slow but steady rise of the United States as a principal international player. This study explores how the transfer of computer technology contributed to the rise of the United States as a political and economic power. To do so, it charts the cultural meaning of computers as they traveled across the Atlantic during the two decades following World War II. American government officers for the Marshall Plan and the executives of progressive corporations, including the two leading US computer manufacturers IBM and Remington Rand, formed a public-private partnership to transfer American business methods and machines to Europe. They intended American computers to increase the productivity of European economies by carrying the American values of free enterprise, cooperative industrial relations and integrated markets. While the Marshall Plan officers pursued a consensus-driven approach to technical aid, the two computer companies unilaterally integrated their European operations. Yet, they were united in their intent to instill productivity-mindedness in (Western) Europeans. But Europeans did not perceive of computers as productivity machines that promised higher standards of living; instead, they saw computers as automation technologies that threatened technological unemployment and socio-economic decline. Closer studies of the German insurance and banking industries show that Germans appropriated computers to the gender and labor relations in each industry. The largest insurance company in Germany, Allianz, rapidly adopted computer technology and a group of new college-educated managers appropriated control over the computer to position themselves among Allianz\u27s executive workforce. Also, they unsuccessfully sought for a technical solution to curb the growing ranks of female routine employees for data entry. The German banking industry, by contrast, delayed the introduction of computers to the late 1960s. In the meantime, German banks relied on part-time female employees for manual data entry and developed their own standard for automatic character recognition, thus devising a sociotechnical solution to the data entry problem. While computers were intended as means of Americanization that carried productivity to Europe, they were appropriated to existing corporate and political cultures in Germany
Built on the Hands of Women: Data, Automation, and Gender in West Germany's Financial Industry
Technology and Culture
Nutzungsbedingungen Die ETH-Bibliothek ist Anbieterin der digitalisierten Zeitschriften. Sie besi... more Nutzungsbedingungen Die ETH-Bibliothek ist Anbieterin der digitalisierten Zeitschriften. Sie besitzt keine Urheberrechte an den Inhalten der Zeitschriften. Die Rechte liegen in der Regel bei den Herausgebern. Die auf der Plattform e-periodica veröffentlichten Dokumente stehen für nicht-kommerzielle Zwecke in Lehre und Forschung sowie für die private Nutzung frei zur Verfügung. Einzelne Dateien oder Ausdrucke aus diesem Angebot können zusammen mit diesen Nutzungsbedingungen und den korrekten Herkunftsbezeichnungen weitergegeben werden. Das Veröffentlichen von Bildern in Print-und Online-Publikationen ist nur mit vorheriger Genehmigung der Rechteinhaber erlaubt. Die systematische Speicherung von Teilen des elektronischen Angebots auf anderen Servern bedarf ebenfalls des schriftlichen Einverständnisses der Rechteinhaber. Haftungsausschluss Alle Angaben erfolgen ohne Gewähr für Vollständigkeit oder Richtigkeit. Es wird keine Haftung übernommen für Schäden durch die Verwendung von Informationen aus diesem Online-Angebot oder durch das Fehlen von Informationen. Dies gilt auch für Inhalte Dritter, die über dieses Angebot zugänglich sind.
Wege in die Digitale Gesellschaft: Computernutzung in der Bundesrepublik 1955-1990 [Towards a digital society: Computer use in West Germany 1955-1990] ed. by Frank Bösch
Technology and Culture, 2020