Programmers and Managers: The Routinization of Computer Programming in the United States
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The routinization of computer programming and management practice and the de-skilling of programmers.
Abstract
Programmers, managers, and sociologists.- Expanding the data base.- How this study is organized.- A note on software scientists.- 1 Computers and the people who make them work.- The division of labor in programming.- Programmers as engineers.- The computer and how it grew.- Separation of user and programmer.- References.- 2 The organization of formal training.- The engineering heritage and its consequences.- Adapting tradition.- Programming and the academy.- References.- 3 De-skilling and fragmentation.- The de-skiller de-skilled.- Programming as mass production work.- References.- 4 The programmer's workplace: Part I the shop.- The social structure of the programming workplace.- References.- 5 The programmer's workplace: Part II careers, pay, and professionalism.- Careers for coders and low-level programmers.- Careers for managers.- Careers for technical specialists.- Pay.- Professionalism.- References.- 6 The routinization of computer programming.- Management practice and the de-skilling of programmers.- Predictions and other essays in prophesying.- The future programmers and programming.- References.