Post-capitalist society
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BookPublication details: New York HarperCollins Publishers 1993Description: 232 p. Includes references and indexISBN: 9780887306617Subject(s): Capitalism | World politics - 1989 | World politics | Information society | Economic history - 1990DDC classification: 330.9 Summary: A probing and incisive analysis of the major world transformation from the Age of Capitalism to the Knowledge Society and how it will affect society, economics, business, and politics now and in the years ahead. In Post-Capitalist Society Peter Drucker describes how every few hundred years a sharp transformation has taken place and greatly affected society - its worldview, its basic values, its business and economics, and its social and political structure. According to Drucker, we are right in the middle of another time of radical change, from the Age of Capitalism and the Nation-State to a Knowledge Society and a Society of Organizations. The primary resource in the post-capitalist society will be knowledge and the leading social groups will be "knowledge workers." Looking backward and forward, Drucker discusses the Industrial Revolution, the Productivity Revolution, the Management Revolution, and the governance of corporations. He explains the new functions of organizations, the economics of knowledge, and productivity as a social and economic priority. He covers the transformation from Nation-State to Megastate, the new pluralism of political systems, and the needed government turnaround. Finally, Drucker details the knowledge issues and the role and use of knowledge in a post-capitalist society. Divided into three parts - Society, Polity, and Knowledge - Post-Capitalist Society provides a searching look into the future as well as a vital analysis of the past, focusing on the challenges of the present transition period and how, if we can understand and respond to them, we can create a new future.
| Item type | Current library | Item location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Books | Vikram Sarabhai Library General Stacks | KLMDC | Non-fiction | 330.9 D7P6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 12857 |
Table of contents
Introduction. The transformation
PART ONE. Society: 1. From capitalism to knowledge society
2. The society of organizations
3. Labor, capital, and their future
4. The productivity of the new work forces
5. The respobsibility-based organization
PART TWO. Polity: 6. From nation-state to megastate
7. Transnationalism, regionalism, and tribalism
8. The needed government turnaround
9. Citizenship through the social sector
PART THREE. Knowledge: 10. Knowledge : its economics and its productivity
11. The accountable school
12. The educated person
Index
A probing and incisive analysis of the major world transformation from the Age of Capitalism to the Knowledge Society and how it will affect society, economics, business, and politics now and in the years ahead. In Post-Capitalist Society Peter Drucker describes how every few hundred years a sharp transformation has taken place and greatly affected society - its worldview, its basic values, its business and economics, and its social and political structure. According to Drucker, we are right in the middle of another time of radical change, from the Age of Capitalism and the Nation-State to a Knowledge Society and a Society of Organizations. The primary resource in the post-capitalist society will be knowledge and the leading social groups will be "knowledge workers." Looking backward and forward, Drucker discusses the Industrial Revolution, the Productivity Revolution, the Management Revolution, and the governance of corporations. He explains the new functions of organizations, the economics of knowledge, and productivity as a social and economic priority. He covers the transformation from Nation-State to Megastate, the new pluralism of political systems, and the needed government turnaround. Finally, Drucker details the knowledge issues and the role and use of knowledge in a post-capitalist society. Divided into three parts - Society, Polity, and Knowledge - Post-Capitalist Society provides a searching look into the future as well as a vital analysis of the past, focusing on the challenges of the present transition period and how, if we can understand and respond to them, we can create a new future.
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