3090	 Automated Welfare Client-Tracking and Service Integration The Political Economy of Computing	 The impacts of an automated client-tracking system on the clients caseworkers administrators and operations of the welfare agencies that use it are reported. The major impact of this system was to enhance the administrative attractiveness of the using agencies in the eyes of funders rather than to increase their internal administrative efficiency. This impact is a joint product of both the technical features of the computer-based system and of the organizational demands placed upon different agencies administrators and caseworkers. It illustrates the way successful automated information systems fit the political economies of the groups that use them. Social impacts of computing organizational impacts of computing management information systems sociology of computing information systems and service integration urban information systems
