After Industrial Society?: The Emerging Self-service EconomyMacmillan, 1978 - 181 páginas Monograph arguing that trends toward future UK postindustrial society are in the direction of consumption of consumer goods rather than in the provision of services - maintains that the increase in service sector employment can be explained by the manufacturing industry's need for trained technicians, while most other services are performed within the household by family members, and discusses the effect declining service industry on occupational change and job design, etc. Graphs, references and statistical tables. |
Contenido
The Hinge of History | 10 |
Some PostIndustrial Themes | 20 |
A Buddhist Economics? | 37 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Adam Smith administration agriculture argument automation Babbage Bacon and Eltis Bell Bell's British Labour Statistics Buddhist economics capital Census Census of Population cent certainly chapter classification consider consumer consumption of services Dahrendorf decline developed world distribution division of labour durables E. F. Schumacher economic growth employed Engel's Law engineers example FIGURE final consumption future Galbraith goods-related household improvement theorists increase increasingly individual intermediate liberal liberty Limits to Growth machine managerial manpower productivity manufacturing industry material consumption material production ment needs Pala percentage planning system Player Piano political post-industrial society prediction Primary Secondary problem professional proportion real consumption rise Schumacher self-service economy service consumption service employment service occupations service sector service workers skilled manual Small is Beautiful Sources suggests TABLE technical tertiary industry tertiary occupations tertiary sector transport trend United Kingdom wealth Weekly budget white collar workforce