LEADER 03934nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910822161803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-262-26666-0 010 $a0-262-26665-2 010 $a1-4356-6561-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000539270 035 $a(OCoLC)259346071 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10246372 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000259092 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11194660 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000259092 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10272810 035 $a(PQKB)11517896 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338927 035 $a(OCoLC)259346071$z(OCoLC)503445282$z(OCoLC)646761855$z(OCoLC)722684726$z(OCoLC)767082567$z(OCoLC)939263744$z(OCoLC)961528209$z(OCoLC)962724875 035 $a(OCoLC-P)259346071 035 $a(MaCbMITP)7970 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338927 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10246372 035 $a(OCoLC)939263744 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000539270 100 $a20080417d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThree lectures on post-industrial society /$fDaniel Cohen ; translated by William McCuaig 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, MA $cMIT Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (119 p.) 300 $aPreviously published in French as: Trois lecons sur la societe post-industrielle. 311 $a0-262-03383-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe era of ruptures -- The new world economy -- Is there a European social model? 330 $aA noted economist analyzes the upheavals caused by revolutions in technology, labor, culture, financial markets, and globalization.In this pithy and provocative book, noted economist Daniel Cohen offers his analysis of the global shift to a post-industrial era. If it was once natural to speak of industrial society, Cohen writes, it is more difficult to speak meaningfully of post-industrial "society." The solidarity that once lay at the heart of industrial society no longer exists. The different levels of large industrial enterprises have been systematically disassembled: tasks considered nonessential are assigned to subcontractors; engineers are grouped together in research sites, apart from the workers. Employees are left exposed while shareholders act to protect themselves. Never has the awareness that we all live in the same world been so strong--and never have the social conditions of existence been so unequal. In these wide-ranging reflections, Cohen describes the transformations that signaled the break between the industrial and the post-industrial eras. He links the revolution in information technology to the trend toward flatter hierarchies of workers with multiple skills--and connects the latter to work practices growing out of the culture of the May 1968 protests. Subcontracting and outsourcing have also changed the nature of work, and Cohen succinctly analyzes the new international division of labor, the economic rise of China, India, and the former Soviet Union, and the economic effects of free trade on poor countries. Finally, Cohen examines the fate of the European social model--with its traditional compromise between social justice and economic productivity--in a post-industrial world. 606 $aGlobalization$xEconomic aspects 606 $aGlobalization$xSocial aspects 606 $aSocial history$y21st century 607 $aEurope$xSocial policy 615 0$aGlobalization$xEconomic aspects. 615 0$aGlobalization$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aSocial history 676 $a330.9 700 $aCohen$b Daniel$f1953-$0120391 701 $aMcCuaig$b William$f1949-$0241307 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822161803321 996 $aThree lectures on post-industrial society$94017094 997 $aUNINA