270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book, first published in 1985, tackles simultaneously three major questions about the course of industrial evolution: what are the features of the industrial systems that have developed outside Western capitalism? What are the salient evolutionary developments now occurring in all advanced capitalist systems? What light can social theory throw upon the evolution of industrial systems thus... Read more
Part 1. The Framework of Analysis 1. Introduction 2. Theories of Industrial Change Part 2. Issues for Advanced Capitalist Systems 3. The Control of Corporate Power 4. The World of Work: The Impact of Automation and the Shift to Services Part 3. The Industrial System of the USSR 5. The Planning Process and the Cycle of Reform 6. Institutional Interests and the Challenge of Change Part 4. The Japanese Industrial System 7. The Process of Development up to World War II 8. The Japanese Way Part 5. The Forking Paths 9. The Evolutionary Trends and the Needs of Humanity
Biography
Timothy Leggatt
