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100 1 $aAgar, Jon.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97067521
245 14 $aThe government machine :$ba revolutionary history of the computer /$cJon Agar.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bMIT Press,$c2003.
300 $aviii, 554 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aHistory of computing
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [433]-533) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: The State of Knowledge -- $g1.$tThe Machineries of Government -- $g2.$t"The Parent of a Totally Different Order of Things": Charles Trevelyan and the Civil Service as Machine -- $g3.$t"Chaotic England" and the Organized World: Official Statistics and Expert Statisticians -- $g4.$t"One Universal Register": Fantasies and Realities of Total Knowledge" -- $g5.$tThe Office Machinery of Government -- $g6.$tAn Information War -- $g7.$tThe Military Machine? -- $g8.$tTreasury Organization and Methods and the Computerization of Government Work -- $g9.$tPrivacy and Distrust -- $g10.$tComputers and Experts in the Hollowed-Out State, 1970-2000 -- $tConclusions and International Perspectives.
520 1 $a"In The Government Machine Jon Agar traces the mechanization of government work in the United Kingdom from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. He argues that this transformation has been tied to the rise of "expert movements," groups whose authority has rested on their expertise. The deployment of machines was an attempt to gain control over state action - a revolutionary move. Agar shows how mechanization followed the popular depiction of government as machine-like, with British civil servants cast as components of a general-purpose "government machine"; indeed, he argues that today's general-purpose computer is the apotheosis of the civil servant."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aComputers$xGovernment policy$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
650 0 $aPublic administration$zGreat Britain$xData processing$xHistory.
650 0 $aCivil service$xEffect of technological innovations on$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
830 0 $aHistory of computing.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90634416
852 00 $bmat$hQA76.9.G68$iA33 2003