Information technology and organizational transformation : history, rhetoric, and practice / edited by Joanne Yates, John Van Maaner.

Section 1. Historical perspectives on information technology and organizational transformation / Joanne Yates and John Van Maanen -- The role of information technology in the transformation of work : a comparison of post-industrial, industrial, and proto-industrial organization / Susan J. Winter and S. Lynne Taylor -- Information technology and organizational change in the British census, 1801-1911 / Martin Campbell Kelly -- Texas politics and the fax revolution / Jonathan Coopersmith -- Section 2. The rhetoric of information technology and organizational transformation / John Van Maanen and Joanne Yates -- Computerization movements : the rise of the internet and distant forms of work / Suzanne Iacono and Robert Kling -- Politically wired : the changing places of political participation in the Age of the internet / Charles Bazerman -- Information technology in a culture of complaint : derogation, deprecation, and the appropriation of organizational transformation / John R. Weeks -- Section 3. The practice of information technology and organizational transformation / John Van Maanen and Joanne Yates -- Big brother goes portable : enduser computing in the Internal Revenue Service / Brian Pentland -- Information technology in the police context : the sailor phone / Peter K. Manning -- Improvising organizational transformation over time : a comparative case study of geographic information systems in county government / Daniel Robey and Sundeep Sahay -- Steps toward an ecology of infrastructure : design and access for large information spaces / Susan Leigh Star and Karen Ruhleder.