{"product_id":"the-rise-of-the-network-society-isbn-9781405196864","title":"The Rise of the Network Society","description":"This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eGroundbreaking volume on the impact of the age of information on all aspects of society\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes coverage of the influence of the internet and the net-economy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDescribes the accelerating pace of innovation and social transformation\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBased on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Tables xiv\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the 2010 Edition of The Rise of the Network Society xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments 2000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments 1996\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrologue: the Net and the Self 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTechnology, Society, and Historical Change 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInformationalism, Industrialism, Capitalism, Statism: Modes of Development and Modes of Production 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInformationalism and capitalist perestroika 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Self in the Informational Society 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Word on Method 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The Information Technology Revolution 28\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhich Revolution? 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLessons from the Industrial Revolution 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Historical Sequence of the Information Technology Revolution 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMicro-engineering macro-changes: electronics and information 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe creation of the Internet 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 1970s’ technological divide 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTechnologies of life 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial context and the dynamics of technological change 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModels, Actors, and Sites of the Information Technology Revolution 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Information Technology Paradigm 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The New Economy: Informationalism, Globalization, Networking 77\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProductivity, Competitiveness, and the Informational Economy 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe productivity enigma 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIs knowledge-based productivity specific to the informational economy? 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInformationalism and capitalism, productivity and profitability 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe historical specificity of informationalism 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Global Economy: Structure, Dynamics, and Genesis 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobal financial markets 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalization of markets for goods and services: growth and transformation of international trade 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalization versus regionalization 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe internationalization of production: multinational corporations and international production networks 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInformational production and selective globalization of science and technology 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobal labor? 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe geometry of the global economy: segments and networks 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe political economy of globalization: capitalist restructuring, information technology, and state policies 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Economy 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 The Network Enterprise: the Culture, Institutions, and Organizations of the Informational Economy 163\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrganizational Trajectories in the Restructuring of Capitalism and in the Transition from Industrialism to Informationalism 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNetwork technologies and pervasive computing 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSmall business and the crisis of the large corporation: myth and reality 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Toyotism”: management–worker cooperation, multifunctional labor, total quality control, and reduction of uncertainty 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInter-firm networking 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCorporate strategic alliances 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe horizontal corporation and global business networks 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe crisis of the vertical corporation model and the rise of business networks 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNetworking the networks: the Cisco model 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInformation Technology and the Network Enterprise 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCulture, Institutions, and Economic Organization: East\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAsian Business Networks 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA typology of East Asian business networks 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJapan 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKorea 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChina 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCulture, organizations, and institutions: Asian business networks and the developmental state 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMultinational Enterprises, Transnational Corporations,and International Networks 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Spirit of Informationalism 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 The Transformation of Work and Employment: Networkers, Jobless, and Flex-timers 216\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Historical Evolution of Employment and Occupational Structure in Advanced Capitalist Countries: the G-7, 1920–2005 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePost-industrialism, the service economy, and the informational society 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe transformation of employment structure, 1920–1970 and 1970–1990 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe new occupational structure 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe maturing of the informational society: employment projections into the twenty-first century 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSumming up: the evolution of employment structure and its implications for a comparative analysis  of the informational society 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom mass production to flexible production 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Work Process in the Informational Paradigm 255\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Effects of Information Technology on Employment: Toward a Jobless Society? 267\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWork and the Informational Divide: Flex-timers 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInformation Technology and the Restructuring of Capital–Labor Relations: Social Dualism or Fragmented Societies? 296\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix A: Statistical Tables for Chapter 4 303\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix B: Methodological Note and Statistical References 338\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 The Culture of Real Virtuality: the Integration of Electronic Communication, the End of the Mass\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAudience, and the Rise of Interactive Networks 355\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the Gutenberg Galaxy to the McLuhan Galaxy: the Rise of Mass Media Culture 358\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Media and the Diversification of Mass Audience 365\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComputer-mediated Communication, Institutional Control, Social Networks, and Virtual Communities 371\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Minitel story: l’état et l’amour 372\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Internet constellation 375\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe interactive society 385\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Grand Fusion: Multimedia as Symbolic Environment 394\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Culture of Real Virtuality 403\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 The Space of Flows 407\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdvanced Services, Information Flows, and the Global City 409\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Industrial Space 417\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEveryday Life in the Electronic Cottage: the End of Cities? 424\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Transformation of Urban Form: the Informational City 429\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerica’s last suburban frontier 429\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe fading charm of European cities 431\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThird millennium urbanization: mega-cities 434\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Social Theory of Space and the Theory of the Space of Flows 440\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Architecture of the End of History 448\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpace of Flows and Space of Places 453\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIs There a Global Labor Force? 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 The Edge of Forever: Timeless Time 460\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTime, History, and Society 461\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTime as the Source of Value: the Global Casino 465\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFlex-time and the Network Enterprise 467\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Shrinking and Twisting of Life Working Time 468\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Blurring of the Life-cycle: Toward Social Arrhythmia? 475\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeath Denied 481\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInstant Wars 484\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVirtual Time 491\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTime, Space, and Society: the Edge of Forever 494\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: the Network Society 500\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary of the Contents of Volumes II and III 510\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 512\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 566\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eReviews of the Second Edition:\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"We live today in a period of intense and puzzling transformation, signalling perhaps a move beyond the industrial era altogether. Yet where are the great sociological works that chart this transition? Hence the importance of Manuel Castells' multivolume work, in which he seeks to chart the social and economic dynamics of the information age . . . [It] is bound to be a major reference source for years to come.\" (Anthony Giddens, \u003ci\u003eThe Times Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Adam Smith explained how capitalism worked, and Karl Marx explained why it didn't. Now the social and economic relations of the Information Age have been captured by Manuel Castells.\" (\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"So far, the person who has straddled the world of social theory and Silicon Valley most successfully is Manuel Castells. Castells enjoys a growing reputation as the first significant philosopher of cyberspace.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A must-read.\" (\u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book goes a considerable way to helping us make sense of today's global information economy and our place in it.\" (\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eManuel Castells\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona. He is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and Society at M.I.T., and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford University. He is the recipient of numerous academic awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, C. Wright Mills Award, the Robert and Helen Lynd Award from the American Sociological Association, and the Ithiel de Sola Pool Award from the American Political Science Association. He is a Fellow of the European Academy, a Fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy of Economics, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He has received 14 honorary doctorates from universities around the world. He has authored 22 books, among which is the trilogy \u003ci\u003eThe Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, first published by Blackwell in 1996–8, and translated into 20 languages.  A little over a decade since its first publication, the hypotheses set out in Manuel Castells' groundbreaking trilogy have largely been verified. In a substantial new preface to the first volume in the series, Castells demonstrates, in the light of major world trends, how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale.  \u003cp\u003eThe book discusses how the global economy is now characterized by the almost instantaneous flow and exchange of information, capital, and cultural communication. These flows order and condition both consumption and production. The networks themselves reflect and create distinctive cultures. Both they and the traffic they carry are largely outside national regulation. Our dependence on the new modes of informational flow gives enormous power to those in a position to control them to control us. The main political arena is now the media, and the media are not politically answerable.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, Castells, formulates a systematic theory of the information society and details the new social and economic developments brought by the Internet and the 'new economy'.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"A brief review cannot do it justice. No other scholar has approached the subject of the information age in as engaging and innovative a way as this author. Strongly recommended for academic libraries.\"\u003cbr\u003e –\u003cb\u003eM. 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