From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society

The second edition of this classic study, revised with a new and substantial opening chapter. New edition of a classic study by a leading social theorist Explores three major ideas crucial to contemporary social theory: the information society, post-Fordism, and post-modernism Places the three key ideas within the context of contemporary discourse on globalization.

Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to First Edition.. 1 Rethinking Modernity. 2 The Revival of Post-Industrial Theory.. 3 The Information Society.. 4 Fordism and Post-Fordism.. 5 Modernity and Post-Modernity (1): The Idea of the Modern.. 6 Modernity and Post-Modernity (2): The Idea of Post-Modernity.. 7 Millennial Themes: Endings and Beginnings.. Notes. References. Index.