Main entry:

Bell, Daniel, 1919-2011.

Title & Author:

The coming of post-industrial society : a venture in social forecasting / Daniel Bell.

Edition:

Special anniversary ed. / with a new foreword by the author.

Publication:

New York : Basic Books, ©1999.

Description:

cv, 507 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
From industrial to post-industrial society : theories of social development -- From goods to services : the changing shape of the economy -- The dimensions of knowledge and technology : the new class structure of post-industrial society -- The subordination of the corporation : the tension between the economizing and sociologizing modes -- Social choice and social planning : the adequacy of our concepts and tools -- "Who will rule?" Politicians and technocrats in the post-industrial society -- Coda: An agenda for the future.

Summary:

Bell's prophetic 1976 forecast of the Information Age and how it would radically alter the social structure. With a new introduction by Bell. In 1976, when Daniel Bell first published The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, he predicted a vastly different world-one that would rely upon an economics of information, as opposed to the economics of goods that had existed up to then. Bell argued that the new society would not displace the old one but rather overlay it in profound ways, much as industrialization continues to coexist with the agrarian sectors of our society. In Bell's prescient vision, the post-industrial society would include the birth and growth of a knowledge class, a change from goods to services, and changes in the role of women. All of these would be based upon an increasing dependence on science as a means of innovation; as a means of technical and social change. The Coming of Post-Industrial Society remains an important book for a whole new generation of politicians, economists, intellectuals, and students. --Publisher.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0465097138 (pbk.)
9780465097135 (pbk.)
0465012817
9780465012817

Subject:

Social history 20th century.
Social prediction.
Histoire sociale 20e siècle.
Prévision sociale.
Social conditions
Social history.
Social change.
Industries Social aspects.
United States Social conditions 1945-
États-Unis Conditions sociales 1945-
United States.

Form/genre:

Statistics.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 280626
Call No.: HN17.5 .B38 1999
Status: Available