Unions and Information, Britain 1900-1960: An Essay in the History of Information
In: International review of social history, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 395-417
ISSN: 0020-8590
In: International review of social history, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 395-417
ISSN: 0020-8590
In: International review of social history, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 395-417
ISSN: 1469-512X
This article examines the use of information by British trade unions to react to occupational change. Using a case study of the response to welding by the Boilermakers' Society, it looks at the barriers that prevented the use of information. It then examines the rise of trade union research departments. This leads to an outline of a framework for looking at the ways in which trade unions used information, based on their attitude towards their environment. The article suggests that an "information perspective" is a useful supplement to existing ways of examining trade union history which may shed new light on their development.
In: Criminal justice information policy
In: Oxford scholarship online
In: Economics and Finance
In: International review of social history, Band 48, S. 225-261
ISSN: 1469-512X
In: International review of social history, Band 48, Heft S11, S. 225-261
ISSN: 1469-512X
As co-editor of this IRSH supplement "Uncovering Labour in Information Revolutions", I have to begin this commentary with a confession. Before I entered the world of abstract knowledge production, commodification, and consumption known as academia, I was myself a worker in a world of much more concrete information processing: I was a computer programmer in the US from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, a time we might now consider the nostalgic heyday of desktop-office information technology (IT). In the spirit of full disclosure, before I leap into an analysis of how we might more broadly conceptualize information technology together with information labor in different historical contexts, I have decided to work through my own historical narrative a bit. After all, if historical practice teaches us nothing else, it teaches that each of us makes sense of the world through the lens of personal experience, leaving historians (among others) with the daunting task of interpreting, translating, and finding patterns of meaning in those experiences. Thus I offer this candid admission: "I was a teenage information worker!"
"All the Facts presents a history of the role of information in the United States since 1870, when the nation began a nearly 150-year period of economic prosperity and technological and scientific transformations. James Cortada argues that citizens and their institutions used information extensively as tools to augment their work and private lives and that they used facts to help shape how the nation evolved during these fourteen decades. He argues that information's role has long been a critical component of the work, play, culture, and values of this nation, and no more so than during the twentieth century when its function in society expanded dramatically. While elements of this story have been examined by thousands of scholars---such as the role of radio, newspapers, books, computers, and the Internet, about such institutions as education, big business, expanded roles of governments from town administration to the state house, from agriculture to the services and information industries---All the Facts looks at all of these elements holistically, providing a deeper insight into the way the United States evolved over time. An introduction and 11 chapters describe what this information ecosystem looked like, how it evolved, and how it was used. For another vast layer of information about this subject the reader is directed to the detailed bibliographic essay in the back of this book. It includes a narrative history, case studies in the form of sidebars, and stories illustrating key points. Readers will find, for example, the story of how the US postal system helped create today's information society, along with everything from books and newspapers to TV, computers, and the Internet. The build-up to what many today call the Information Age took a long time to achieve and continues to build momentum. The implications for the world, and not just for the United States, are as profound as any mega-trend one could identify in the history of humankind. All the Facts presents this development thoroughly in an easy-to-digest format that any lover of history, technology, or the history of information and business will enjoy"--
Recommends creation of a document that tracks legislation related to access to criminal histories.
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In: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112021008336
"November 1993, NCJ-143501"--T.p. ; "A Criminal Justice Information Policy Report"--T.p. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Laws and policies -- New technologies -- Interstate identification index -- Federal initiatives and legislation. ; Mode of access: Internet.
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July 1992. ; Shipping list no.: 93-0037-P. ; "Current status of the law, Summary of State statutes, by category, by State--Cover." ; Spine title: Compendium of state privacy and security legislation, 1992. ; Title etc., from label pasted on title page. Cover title correct. ; Report performed under BJS cooperative agreement No. 87-BJ-CX-K079 awarded to SEARCH Group, Inc.--T.p. verso. ; "NCJ-137058." ; Mode of access: Internet.
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In: Vestnik Permskogo universiteta: Perm University herald. Serija Istorija = Series History, Heft 3, S. 159-174
In: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hl4fgd
"Published . [by] British information services (an agency of the British government)" ; Mode of access: Internet.
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