The Coming of Post-industrial Society: A Venture in Social ForecastingMonograph on the future of the post-industrial affluent society, with particular reference to the evolution of a service sector-oriented society in the USA and other capitalist countries - includes forecasts and commentaries on social change, technological change, education, the enterprise, equal opportunity, higher education, human rights, the elite, politics, the professional worker class, social planning, etc. References and statistical tables. |
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The Changing | 121 |
The Dimensions of Knowledge | 165 |
Who Will Rule? Politicians | 339 |
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