Post-capitalist society /
Publication details: New York, NY : HarperBusiness, ©1993.Edition: 1st edDescription: 232 pages ; 25 cmISBN:- 0887306209
- 9780887306204
- HC59.15 .D78 1993
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Whitecliffe Library General Shelves | General | HD 38 DRU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0005243 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The transformation -- pt. 1. Society. From capitalism to knowledge society -- The society of organizations -- Labor, capital, and their future -- The productivity of the new work forces -- The responsibility-based organization -- pt. 2. Polity. From nation-state to megastate -- Transnationalism, regionalism, and tribalism -- The needed government turnaround -- Citizenship through the social sector -- pt. 3. Knowledge. Knowledge: its economics and its productivity -- The accountable school -- The educated person.
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 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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New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year
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