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<div class="">On 2017.Oct.16, at 22:32 , Julie Cohn <<a href="mailto:cohnconnor@comcast.net" class="">cohnconnor@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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Congratulations! Looks excellent! -Julie Cohn
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<div class="">Thanks for the heads-up, Jeff! This looks like a fascinating book with an argument near and dear to my heart. I'm asking my university library to purchase it right now...</div>
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<div class="">Congrats on its publication!</div>
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IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry.</i></span></div>
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The computer services industry has worldwide annual revenues of over a trillion dollars and employs millions of workers, but is often overshadowed by the hardware and software products industries (both of which are less than half its size). In this book, I
examine how computer services, from consulting, data processing, programming, systems integration, time-sharing, and facilities management to data analytics and cloud computing, have played a crucial role in shaping information technology -- in making IT
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(both in the sense of making IT useful, and also extending the ever growing IT labor force). Based on extensive archival research (many CBI collections, the IBM Corporate Archives, Hagley Museum & Library, MIT Archives, etc.), oral histories, and trade journal
research, I provide a business, social (gender, labor, professionalization), policy/legal/political economy history of this 65 year old industry. In doing so, I seek to contribute to business, social, and technology historiography.</span></span>
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