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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 17.10.2017 um 01:27 schrieb Jeffrey Yost <<a href="mailto:yostx003@umn.edu" class="">yostx003@umn.edu</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(59,59,59);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Dear Colleagues,</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(59,59,59);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(59,59,59);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Wanted to announce a new book that I just published with MIT Press that may be of potential interest--<i class="">Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry.</i></span></div><span id="gmail-m_-8814844812329027897m_2114266503591302154gmail-m_8288313460560333545gmail-docs-internal-guid-fb56b7dd-26a1-eb4a-0b6c-f26940640699" style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(59,59,59);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline" class=""><br class=""></span></div>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 </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(59,59,59);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">work</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(59,59,59);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> (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><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><font color="#3b3b3b" face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><font color="#3b3b3b" face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Making-Work-Computer-Services-Computing/dp/026203672X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1508181708&sr=8-1&keywords=making+it+work+yost" target="_blank" class="">https://www.amazon.com/Making-<wbr class="">Work-Computer-Services-Computi<wbr class="">ng/dp/026203672X/ref=sr_1_1?ie<wbr class="">=UTF8&qid=1508181708&sr=8-1&ke<wbr class="">ywords=making+it+work+yost</a></span><br class=""></font><div class=""><font color="#3b3b3b" face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#3b3b3b" face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Thanks.</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#3b3b3b" face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#3b3b3b" face="Arial" style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Best, Jeff</span></font></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div class="">Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D.</div>
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