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

Yates, JoAnne, 1951-

Structuring the information age : life insurance and technology in the twentieth century / JoAnne Yates. - Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. - x, 351 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Studies in industry and society .

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

Insurance at the turn of the twentieth century -- First impressions of tabulating, 1890-1910 -- The push towards printing, 1910-1924 -- Insurance associations and the flowering of the tabulator era -- Early engagement between insurance and computing -- Insurance adoption and use of the early computers -- Incremental migration during the 1960s and 1970s -- Case studies in insurance computing : New England Mutual Life and Aetna .

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

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Life insurance--History.--United States
Life insurance--Technological innovations.
Information technology--History.
Computers--History.

HG 8951 / Y31s 2005

368.32/00973