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. |
Contents
The Changing | 121 |
The Dimensions of Knowledge | 165 |
Who Will Rule? Politicians | 339 |
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| Title | The Coming of Post-industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting (Basic books) Harper colophon books Harper torchbooks Social theory |
| Author | Daniel Bell |
| Contributor | Daniel Bell |
| Publisher | Basic Books, 1973 |
| ISBN | 0465012817, 9780465012817 |
| Length | 507 pages |
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