Making IT Work (MIT Press, 2017) published
Dear Colleagues, Wanted to announce a new book that I just published with MIT Press that may be of potential interest--*Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry.* 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 work (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. https://www.amazon.com/Making-Work-Computer-Services-Computi ng/dp/026203672X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1508181708&sr=8-1&ke ywords=making+it+work+yost Thanks. Best, Jeff -- Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D. Associate Director, Charles Babbage Institute Faculty, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine 222 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 612 624 5050 Phone 612 625 8054 Fax
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... Congrats on its publication! Best, Marie ______________________ Marie Hicks, Ph.D. Department of History University of Wisconsin-Madison mariehicks.net Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing www.programmedinequality.com On Oct 16, 2017, at 6:27 PM, Jeffrey Yost <yostx003@umn.edu> wrote: Dear Colleagues, Wanted to announce a new book that I just published with MIT Press that may be of potential interest--Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry. 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 work (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. 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 Thanks. Best, Jeff -- Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D. Associate Director, Charles Babbage Institute Faculty, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine 222 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 612 624 5050 Phone 612 625 8054 Fax _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org ______________________
Congratulations! Looks excellent! -Julie Cohn
On Oct 16, 2017, at 9:08 PM, M. Hicks <mhicks1@iit.edu> wrote:
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...
Congrats on its publication!
Best,
Marie ______________________ Marie Hicks, Ph.D. Department of History University of Wisconsin-Madison mariehicks.net <http://www.mariehicks.net/>
Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing www.programmedinequality.com <http://www.programmedinequality.com/>On Oct 16, 2017, at 6:27 PM, Jeffrey Yost <yostx003@umn.edu <mailto:yostx003@umn.edu>> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
Wanted to announce a new book that I just published with MIT Press that may be of potential interest--Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry.
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 work (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.
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 <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>
Thanks.
Best, Jeff
-- Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D. Associate Director, Charles Babbage Institute Faculty, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
222 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455
612 624 5050 Phone 612 625 8054 Fax _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org <http://sigcis.org/>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ <http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/> and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org <http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org>
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Congratulations, Jeff! We’ll be adding it to Hagley’s collections. Best, Erik -- Erik P. Rau, PhD Director, Library Services Hagley Museum & Library P.O. Box 3630, 298 Buck Road Wilmington, DE 19807 302.658.2400, ext. 344 erau@hagley.org<mailto:erau@hagley.org> www.hagley.org<http://www.hagley.org> On 2017.Oct.16, at 22:32 , Julie Cohn <cohnconnor@comcast.net<mailto:cohnconnor@comcast.net>> wrote: Congratulations! Looks excellent! -Julie Cohn On Oct 16, 2017, at 9:08 PM, M. Hicks <mhicks1@iit.edu<mailto:mhicks1@iit.edu>> wrote: 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... Congrats on its publication! Best, Marie ______________________ Marie Hicks, Ph.D. Department of History University of Wisconsin-Madison mariehicks.net<http://www.mariehicks.net/> Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing www.programmedinequality.com<http://www.programmedinequality.com/> On Oct 16, 2017, at 6:27 PM, Jeffrey Yost <yostx003@umn.edu<mailto:yostx003@umn.edu>> wrote: Dear Colleagues, Wanted to announce a new book that I just published with MIT Press that may be of potential interest--Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry. 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 work (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. 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 Thanks. Best, Jeff -- Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D. Associate Director, Charles Babbage Institute Faculty, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine 222 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 612 624 5050 Phone 612 625 8054 Fax _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org<http://sigcis.org/>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org ______________________ _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org<http://sigcis.org/>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org<http://sigcis.org>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org
Congratulations, Jeff! I am eager to read it – remember our conversations about the early history of service bureaus ? Best, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn De: "Erik Rau" <erau@Hagley.org> À: "Julie Cohn" <cohnconnor@comcast.net> Cc: "members" <members@sigcis.org> Envoyé: Mardi 17 Octobre 2017 13:37:49 Objet: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Making IT Work (MIT Press, 2017) published Congratulations, Jeff! We’ll be adding it to Hagley’s collections. Best, Erik -- Erik P. Rau, PhD Director, Library Services Hagley Museum & Library P.O. Box 3630, 298 Buck Road Wilmington, DE 19807 302.658.2400, ext. 344 [ mailto:erau@hagley.org | erau@hagley.org ] [ http://www.hagley.org/ | www.hagley.org ] On 2017.Oct.16, at 22:32 , Julie Cohn < [ mailto:cohnconnor@comcast.net | cohnconnor@comcast.net ] > wrote: Congratulations! Looks excellent! -Julie Cohn BQ_BEGIN On Oct 16, 2017, at 9:08 PM, M. Hicks < [ mailto:mhicks1@iit.edu | mhicks1@iit.edu ] > wrote: 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... Congrats on its publication! Best, Marie ______________________ Marie Hicks, Ph.D. Department of History University of Wisconsin-Madison [ http://www.mariehicks.net/ | mariehicks.net ] Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing [ http://www.programmedinequality.com/ | www.programmedinequality.com ] On Oct 16, 2017, at 6:27 PM, Jeffrey Yost < [ mailto:yostx003@umn.edu | yostx003@umn.edu ] > wrote: Dear Colleagues, Wanted to announce a new book that I just published with MIT Press that may be of potential interest-- Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry. 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 work (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. [ 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 | 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 ] Thanks. Best, Jeff -- Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D. Associate Director, Charles Babbage Institute Faculty, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine 222 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 612 624 5050 Phone 612 625 8054 Fax _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at [ http://sigcis.org/ | sigcis.org ] , the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. 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Congratulations, Jeff. It sounds very interesting! JoAnne From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Erik Rau Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 7:38 AM To: Julie Cohn <cohnconnor@comcast.net> Cc: SHOT History of SHOT History of Computing List <members@sigcis.org> Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Making IT Work (MIT Press, 2017) published Congratulations, Jeff! We’ll be adding it to Hagley’s collections. Best, Erik -- Erik P. Rau, PhD Director, Library Services Hagley Museum & Library P.O. Box 3630, 298 Buck Road Wilmington, DE 19807 302.658.2400, ext. 344 erau@hagley.org<mailto:erau@hagley.org> www.hagley.org<http://www.hagley.org> On 2017.Oct.16, at 22:32 , Julie Cohn <cohnconnor@comcast.net<mailto:cohnconnor@comcast.net>> wrote: Congratulations! Looks excellent! -Julie Cohn On Oct 16, 2017, at 9:08 PM, M. Hicks <mhicks1@iit.edu<mailto:mhicks1@iit.edu>> wrote: 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... Congrats on its publication! Best, Marie ______________________ Marie Hicks, Ph.D. Department of History University of Wisconsin-Madison mariehicks.net<http://www.mariehicks.net/> Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing www.programmedinequality.com<http://www.programmedinequality.com/> On Oct 16, 2017, at 6:27 PM, Jeffrey Yost <yostx003@umn.edu<mailto:yostx003@umn.edu>> wrote: Dear Colleagues, Wanted to announce a new book that I just published with MIT Press that may be of potential interest--Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry. 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 work (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. 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 Thanks. Best, Jeff -- Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D. Associate Director, Charles Babbage Institute Faculty, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine 222 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 612 624 5050 Phone 612 625 8054 Fax _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org<http://sigcis.org/>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org ______________________ _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org<http://sigcis.org/>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org<http://sigcis.org>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org
Congratulations also from me, Jeffrey! I’m really looking forward to read the book and will suggest it to our library. I curios for your results. Best Martin Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter | Doktorand | digital enthusiast ZENTRUM FÜR ZEITHISTORISCHE FORSCHUNG | POTSDAM Mail: schmitt@zzf-potsdam.de <mailto:schmitt@zzf-pdm.de> Tel: +49 331 - 74510-119 http://www.zzf-pdm.de/site/991/Default.aspx BLOG - www.computerisierung.com Vice Chair of IFIP WG 9.7 „History of computing" Neu erschienen: Martin Schmitt - Internet im Kalten Krieg. http://www.transcript-verlag.de/detail/index/sArticle/3569
Am 17.10.2017 um 01:27 schrieb Jeffrey Yost <yostx003@umn.edu>:
Dear Colleagues,
Wanted to announce a new book that I just published with MIT Press that may be of potential interest--Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry.
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 work (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.
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 <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>
Thanks.
Best, Jeff
-- Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D. Associate Director, Charles Babbage Institute Faculty, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
222 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455
612 624 5050 Phone 612 625 8054 Fax _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org
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