post-industrial society
description: societies whose service sector provides more economic value than manufcaturing
108 results
Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
by John T. Cacioppo · 9 Aug 2009 · 327pp · 97,720 words
we saw that violations of the pair bond for sexual fidelity were far from unusual within the human environment of evolutionary adaptation. In today’s post-industrial societies, DNA testing to sort out uncertain paternity is a thriving business. To stay on top, the alpha not only needs accurate information; he needs to
The Soul of a New Machine
by Tracy Kidder · 1 Jan 1981 · 299pp · 99,080 words
wide, manufacturers had to strive to make them easy to use and, wherever possible, invisible. Were computers a profound, unseen hand? In The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, Daniel Bell asserted that new machines introduced in the nineteenth century, such as the railroad train, made larger changes in "the lives of individuals than
The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise
by Nathan L. Ensmenger · 31 Jul 2010 · 429pp · 114,726 words
most successful and profitable industries of all time? How can we understand the role of computer specialists—in many respects the paradigmatic “knowledge workers” of post-industrial society—within this troubled framework of crisis, conflict, and contested identity? If, as Shoshona Zuboff has suggested, computer-based technologies are not simply neutral artifacts, but
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: Control and Contradiction in the Software Labour Process, ed. Paul Thompson and Chris Warhurst, 142–162. New York: Macmillan, 1998. Bell, Daniel. The Coming of Post-Industrial Society. New York: Basic Books, 1973. Bemer, Robert. Computers and Crisis: How Computers Are Shaping Our Future. New York: ACM Press, 1971. Bendix Computer Division. “Is
Inside the Robot Kingdom: Japan, Mechatronics and the Coming Robotopia
by Frederik L. Schodt · 31 Mar 1988 · 361pp · 83,886 words
, finance, or the sale of resources. Why not accept the world trend of specialization and international division of labor and become, as many experts suggest, post-industrial societies based on software, design, and the service industries? First, nations with strong manufacturing industries have historically dominated other areas as well. Process and product technology
The New Gold Rush: The Riches of Space Beckon!
by Joseph N. Pelton · 5 Nov 2016 · 321pp · 89,109 words
is, could we survive the loss of our space systems? The Increasing Risks from Cosmic Hazards We humans today are truly more vulnerable as a post-industrial society than we were even in the days of the caveman. It is much easier to find a new cave, and to find a new place
Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age
by Virginia Eubanks · 1 Feb 2011 · 289pp · 99,936 words
physical capital, and flexible networks replace rigid organization charts” (Henwood 2003, 3–4). 14. Among the most popular are Daniel Bell’s The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1976), Alvin Toffler’s The Third Wave (1980), John Naisbett’s Megatrends (1984), Peter Drucker’s Post-Capitalist Society (1993), Bill Gates’s The Road
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:1027–1049. Bastian, Sunil, and Nicola Bastian. 1996. Assessing Participation: A Debate from South Asia. New Delhi: Konark Publishers. Bell, Daniel. 1976. The Coming of Post-Industrial Society. New York: Basic Books. Benhabib, Seyla. 1996. Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Benner, Chris. 2002. Work
On Anarchism
by Noam Chomsky · 4 Nov 2013 · 171pp · 53,428 words
stupidly try to take the direction into their own hands, chaos and ruin will be the inevitable consequence. 2. See Daniel Bell, “Notes on the Post-Industrial Society: Part I,” Public Interest, no. 6 (1967), pp. 24–35. Albert Parry has suggested that there are important similarities between the emergence of a scientific
In the Age of the Smart Machine
by Shoshana Zuboff · 14 Apr 1988
their points of disjuncture with the future. Like many other scholars of my generation, I had been struck by Daniel Bell's formulation of the post- industrial society, but discussions of these social changes were fre- quently limited to sociological abstractions. I wanted to discover the flesh and blood behind the concepts, the
The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
by Steve Stewart-Williams · 12 Sep 2018 · 1,132pp · 156,379 words
any psychological adaptations specifically for agricultural life. And it’s extremely unlikely that we’ve evolved any psychological adaptations specifically for life in industrial or post-industrial societies: adaptations that fit us to city living, for instance, or capitalism, science, or tech.44 But although evolutionary psychologists don’t deny that we’ve
The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling
by Arlie Russell Hochschild · 1 Nov 1983
jobs call for a capacity to deal with people rather than with things, for more interpersonal skills and fewer mechanical skills. In The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), Daniel Bell argues that the growth of the service sector means that "communication" and "encounter" -"the response of ego to alter and back" -is
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puts it, "The fact that individuals now talk to other individuals, rather than interact with a machine, is the fundamental fact about work in the post-industrial society." • Jobs that Bell includes in the service sector are those in transportation and utilities, distribution and trade, finance and insurance, professional and business services, jobs
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Psychiatry 24:495 - 500. Becker, Howard S. 1953 "Becoming a marihuana user." American Journal of Sociology 59: 235-242. Bell, Daniel 1973 The Coming of Post-Industrial Society. New York: Basic Books. Bern, Daryl, and Andrea Allen "On predicting some of the people some of the time: 1974 Bibliography 289 the search for
What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society
by Paul Verhaeghe · 26 Mar 2014 · 208pp · 67,582 words
The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes
by Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder and David Ashton · 3 Nov 2010 · 209pp · 80,086 words
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
by Gabriel Winant · 23 Mar 2021 · 563pp · 136,190 words
The Meritocracy Myth
by Stephen J. McNamee · 17 Jul 2013 · 440pp · 108,137 words
A Pelican Introduction Economics: A User's Guide
by Ha-Joon Chang · 26 May 2014 · 385pp · 111,807 words
Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology
by Howard Rheingold · 14 May 2000 · 352pp · 120,202 words
The Next Factory of the World: How Chinese Investment Is Reshaping Africa
by Irene Yuan Sun · 16 Oct 2017 · 239pp · 62,311 words
The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
by Christopher Lasch · 16 Sep 1991 · 669pp · 226,737 words
The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community
by Marc J. Dunkelman · 3 Aug 2014 · 327pp · 88,121 words
The Future of Money
by Bernard Lietaer · 28 Apr 2013
Protocol: how control exists after decentralization
by Alexander R. Galloway · 1 Apr 2004 · 287pp · 86,919 words
Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy
by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake · 7 Nov 2017 · 346pp · 89,180 words
Capitalism in America: A History
by Adrian Wooldridge and Alan Greenspan · 15 Oct 2018 · 585pp · 151,239 words
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
by Carlota Pérez · 1 Jan 2002
Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government
by Robert Higgs and Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr. · 15 Jan 1987
The City: A Global History
by Joel Kotkin · 1 Jan 2005
The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
by Guy Standing · 27 Feb 2011 · 209pp · 89,619 words
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
by Douglas Rushkoff · 1 Mar 2016 · 366pp · 94,209 words
Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason
by William Davies · 26 Feb 2019 · 349pp · 98,868 words
The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It
by Timothy Noah · 23 Apr 2012 · 309pp · 91,581 words
The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900
by David Edgerton · 7 Dec 2006 · 353pp · 91,211 words
In Our Own Image: Savior or Destroyer? The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence
by George Zarkadakis · 7 Mar 2016 · 405pp · 117,219 words
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
by Robert D. Putnam · 12 Oct 2020 · 678pp · 160,676 words
Empire
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri · 9 Mar 2000 · 1,015pp · 170,908 words
Utopia for Realists: The Case for a Universal Basic Income, Open Borders, and a 15-Hour Workweek
by Rutger Bregman · 13 Sep 2014 · 235pp · 62,862 words
To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
by Bethany Moreton · 15 May 2009 · 391pp · 22,799 words
The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class
by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett · 14 May 2017 · 550pp · 89,316 words
Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
by Branko Milanovic · 10 Apr 2016 · 312pp · 91,835 words
Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
by Joshua B. Freeman · 27 Feb 2018 · 538pp · 145,243 words
The End of Work
by Jeremy Rifkin · 28 Dec 1994 · 372pp · 152 words
The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work
by Richard Baldwin · 10 Jan 2019 · 301pp · 89,076 words
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
by Fred Turner · 31 Aug 2006 · 339pp · 57,031 words
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, From the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
by Frank Trentmann · 1 Dec 2015 · 1,213pp · 376,284 words
Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies
by Judith Stein · 30 Apr 2010 · 497pp · 143,175 words
The end of history and the last man
by Francis Fukuyama · 28 Feb 2006 · 446pp · 578 words
The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World
by John Michael Greer · 30 Sep 2009
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
by Kurt Andersen · 14 Sep 2020 · 486pp · 150,849 words
Head, Hand, Heart: Why Intelligence Is Over-Rewarded, Manual Workers Matter, and Caregivers Deserve More Respect
by David Goodhart · 7 Sep 2020 · 463pp · 115,103 words
Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers
by Stephen Graham · 8 Nov 2016 · 519pp · 136,708 words
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
by Francis Fukuyama · 29 Sep 2014 · 828pp · 232,188 words
Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth
by Juliet B. Schor · 12 May 2010 · 309pp · 78,361 words
1968: The Year That Rocked the World
by Mark Kurlansky · 30 Dec 2003 · 538pp · 164,533 words
Stuffocation
by James Wallman · 6 Dec 2013 · 296pp · 82,501 words
Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres
by Jamie Woodcock · 20 Nov 2016
Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism
by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart · 31 Dec 2018
Elsewhere, U.S.A: How We Got From the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms,and Economic Anxiety
by Dalton Conley · 27 Dec 2008 · 204pp · 67,922 words
Hacking Capitalism
by Söderberg, Johan; Söderberg, Johan;
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
by Natasha Dow Schüll · 19 Aug 2012
The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
by Christopher Caldwell · 21 Jan 2020 · 450pp · 113,173 words
Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be
by Diane Coyle · 11 Oct 2021 · 305pp · 75,697 words
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin · 18 Dec 2007 · 1,041pp · 317,136 words
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
by Adrian Wooldridge · 2 Jun 2021 · 693pp · 169,849 words
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class
by Joel Kotkin · 11 May 2020 · 393pp · 91,257 words
Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
by George Gilder · 30 Apr 1981 · 590pp · 153,208 words
Brit-Myth: Who Do the British Think They Are?
by Chris Rojek · 15 Feb 2008 · 219pp · 61,334 words
Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis
by Anatole Kaletsky · 22 Jun 2010 · 484pp · 136,735 words
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
by Thomas Frank · 15 Mar 2016 · 316pp · 87,486 words
Radicals Chasing Utopia: Inside the Rogue Movements Trying to Change the World
by Jamie Bartlett · 12 Jun 2017 · 390pp · 109,870 words
Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself
by Peter Fleming · 14 Jun 2015 · 320pp · 86,372 words
The New Class Conflict
by Joel Kotkin · 31 Aug 2014 · 362pp · 83,464 words
Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation
by Sophie Pedder · 20 Jun 2018 · 337pp · 101,440 words
Future Shock
by Alvin Toffler · 1 Jun 1984 · 286pp · 94,017 words
The Rise of the Network Society
by Manuel Castells · 31 Aug 1996 · 843pp · 223,858 words
How Will Capitalism End?
by Wolfgang Streeck · 8 Nov 2016 · 424pp · 115,035 words
New Localism and Regeneration Management
by Jon Coaffee · 1 Mar 2005
The Great Reset: How the Post-Crash Economy Will Change the Way We Live and Work
by Richard Florida · 22 Apr 2010 · 265pp · 74,941 words
The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us
by Joel Kotkin · 11 Apr 2016 · 565pp · 122,605 words
The Pay Off: How Changing the Way We Pay Changes Everything
by Gottfried Leibbrandt and Natasha de Teran · 14 Jul 2021 · 326pp · 91,532 words
Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
by Vaclav Smil · 16 Dec 2013 · 396pp · 117,897 words
What's Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way
by Nick Cohen · 15 Jul 2015 · 414pp · 121,243 words
The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics
by David Goodhart · 7 Jan 2017 · 382pp · 100,127 words
A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth
by Chris Smaje · 14 Aug 2020 · 375pp · 105,586 words
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
by Ha-Joon Chang · 1 Jan 2010 · 365pp · 88,125 words
The Economic Singularity: Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Capitalism
by Calum Chace · 17 Jul 2016 · 477pp · 75,408 words
The Einstein of Money: The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin Graham
by Joe Carlen · 14 Apr 2012 · 398pp · 111,333 words
Gnomon
by Nick Harkaway · 18 Oct 2017 · 778pp · 239,744 words
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
by Natasha Dow Schüll · 15 Jan 2012 · 632pp · 166,729 words
Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity
by Currid · 9 Nov 2010 · 332pp · 91,780 words
Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse
by Adrian Wooldridge · 29 Nov 2011 · 460pp · 131,579 words
Mobility: A New Urban Design and Transport Planning Philosophy for a Sustainable Future
by John Whitelegg · 1 Sep 2015 · 224pp · 69,494 words
Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time
by James Suzman · 2 Sep 2020 · 909pp · 130,170 words
Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America
by Erik Baker · 13 Jan 2025 · 362pp · 132,186 words
The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy
by Paolo Gerbaudo · 19 Jul 2018 · 302pp · 84,881 words
Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
by Frederic Laloux and Ken Wilber · 9 Feb 2014 · 436pp · 141,321 words
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
by Paul Mason · 29 Jul 2015 · 378pp · 110,518 words
Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology
by Kentaro Toyama · 25 May 2015 · 494pp · 116,739 words
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
by Bill Bishop and Robert G. Cushing · 6 May 2008 · 484pp · 131,168 words
The Twittering Machine
by Richard Seymour · 20 Aug 2019 · 297pp · 83,651 words
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
by Douglas Murray · 3 May 2017 · 420pp · 126,194 words
Invisible Women
by Caroline Criado Perez · 12 Mar 2019 · 480pp · 119,407 words
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History
by David Edgerton · 27 Jun 2018
The Cold War: A World History
by Odd Arne Westad · 4 Sep 2017 · 846pp · 250,145 words
Automation and the Future of Work
by Aaron Benanav · 3 Nov 2020 · 175pp · 45,815 words
The Warhol Economy
by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett · 15 Jan 2020 · 320pp · 90,115 words
Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else
by James Meek · 18 Aug 2014 · 232pp · 77,956 words
How to Be Right: In a World Gone Wrong
by James O'Brien · 2 Nov 2018 · 173pp · 52,725 words
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology
by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel · 30 Sep 2007 · 571pp · 162,958 words
Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
by Angela Nagle · 6 Jun 2017 · 122pp · 38,022 words