The Digital Hand: Volume II: How Computers Changed the Work of American Financial, Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment Industri

by James W. Cortada

Book Overview

The Digital Hand, Volume 2, is a historical survey of how computers and telecommunications have been deployed in over a dozen industries in the financial, telecommunications, media and entertainment sectors over the past half century. It is past of a sweeping three-volume description of how management in some forty industries embraced the computer and changed the American economy. Computers have fundamentally changed the nature of work in America...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019516587X
• ISBN13: 9780195165876
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 2.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"