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Author:

Yates, JoAnne, 1951-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

x, 351 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Insurance, Life--United States--History.
Insurance, Life--Technological innovations.
Information technology--History.
Computers--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-340) and index.

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.

Series:

Studies in industry and society ;

ISBN:

9780801880865 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801880866 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56608222

LCCN:

2004022319

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)