Preface
1: Arrival of Digital Technologies and Their Applications
2: Digitizing the American Economy
3: Presence and Role of Manufacturing Industries in the American Economy
4: Business Patterns and Digital Applications in the Transformation of Manufacturing Industries
5: Patterns and Practices in Three Traditional Manufacturing Industries: Automotive, Steel and Aerospace
6: Patterns and Practices in Three Process Industries: Petroleum, Chemical, and Pharmaceuticals
7: Business Practices and Digital Applications in Information Age Manufacturing Industries: Semiconductors, Hard Drives, and Software
8: Business Practices and Digital Applications in the Transformation of Transportation Industries: Trains and Trucks
9: Presence of Wholesale and Retail Industries in the American Economy
10: Business Patterns and Digital Applications in the Transformation of Wholesale and Retail Industries
11: Patterns and Practices in Three Retail Industries: Grocery, Apparel, e-Tailing
12: Conclusion: How Computers Changed the American Economy
Appendix A: How to Study the Role of Computing by Industry
Appendix B: The Universal Product Code (UPC), Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and Point-of-Sale (POS)
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"This book is by any standard an outstanding contribution to the field. . . there is a huge value in his richly detailed narrative. This set of books will be the standard source on demand-side computing for perhaps a generation. --Martin Campbell-Kelly, Business History Review
"Cortada has perhaps the deepest understandind of the growing and changing impact of computers in society--this series is off to a strong start as a definitive treatment of their roles in specific economic sectors."--Communication Booknotes Quarterly
"This book is by any standard an outstanding contribution to the field. . . there is a huge value in his richly detailed narrative. This set of books will be the standard source on demand-side computing for perhaps a generation. --Martin Campbell-Kelly, Business History Review
"Cortada has perhaps the deepest understandind of the growing and changing impact of computers in society--this series is off to a strong start as a definitive treatment of their roles in specific economic sectors."--Communication Booknotes Quarterly

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