TY - BOOK AU - Castells,Manuel TI - The Rise of the Network Society T2 - Information age SN - 9781405196864 AV - HC79.I55 C373 2010 U1 - 3303.48/33 21 PY - 2010/// CY - United Kingdom PB - Wiley-Blackwell KW - Information Technology KW - Economic aspects KW - Local KW - Technology and civilization KW - Information networks KW - Information society KW - Social aspects KW - Social history KW - Social movements N1 - Include index; Includes bibliographical references (p. [512]-565); Contents : List of Figures xii -- List of Tables xiv -- Preface to the 2010 Edition of The Rise of the Network Society xvii -- Acknowledgments 2000 xlv -- Acknowledgments 1996 lv -- Prologue : the Net and the Self 1 -- Technology, Society, and Historical Change 5 -- Informationalism, Industrialism, Capitalism, Statism : Modes of Development and Modes of Production 13 -- Informationalism and capitalist perestroika 18 -- The Self in the Informational Society 21 -- A Word on Method 25 -- 1 The Information Technology Revolution 28 -- Which Revolution ? 28 -- Lessons from the Industrial Revolution 33 -- The Historical Sequence of the Information Technology Revolution 38 -- Micro engineering macro changes : electronics and information 39 -- The creation of the Internet 45 -- Network technologies and persuasive computing 51 -- The 1970s' technological divide 53 -- Technologies of life 54 -- Social context and the dynamics of technological change 59 -- Models, Actors, and Sites of the Information Technology Revolution 61 -- The Information Technology Paradigm 69 -- 2 The New Economy : Informationalism, Globalization, Networking 77 Productivity, Competitiveness, and the Informational Economy 78 -- The productivity enigma 78 -- Is knowledge based productivity specific to the informational economy ? 80 -- Informationalism and capitalism, productivity and profitability 94 -- The historical specificity of informationalism 99 -- The Global Economy : Structure, Dynamics, and Genesis 101 -- Global financial markets 102 -- Globalization of markets for goods and services : growth and transformation of international trade 106 -- Globalization versus regionalization 110 -- The internationalization of production : multinational corporations and international production networks 116 -- Informational production and selective globalization of science and technology 124 -- Global labol ? 130 -- The geometry of the global economy : segments and networks 132 -- The political economy of globalization : capitalist restructuring, information technology, and state policies 135 -- The New Economy 147 -- 3 The Network Enterprise : the Culture, Institutions, and Organizations of the Informational Economy 163 -- Organizational Trajectories in the Restructuring of Capitalism and in the Transition from Industrialism to Informationalism 164 -- From mass production to flexible production 166 -- Small business and the crisis of the large corporation: myth and reality 167 -- "Toyotism": management-worker cooperation, multifunctional labor, total quality control, and reduction of uncertainty 169 -- Inter firm networking 172 -- Corporate strategic alliances 174 -- The horizontal corporation and global business networks 176 -- The crisis of the vertical corporation model and the rise of business networks 178 -- Networking the networks: the Cisco model 180 -- Information Technology and the Network Enterprise 184 -- Culture, Institutions, and Economic Organization: East Asian Business Networks 188 -- A typology of East Asian business networks 189 -- Japan 190 -- Korea 191 -- China 193 -- Culture, organizations, and institutions: Asian business networks and the developmental state 195 -- Multinational Enterprises, Transnational Corporations, and International Networks 206 -- The Spirit of Informationalism 210 -- 4 The Transformation of Work and Employment: Networkers, Jobless, and Flex timers 216 -- The Historical Evolution of Employment and Occupational Structure in Advanced Capitalist Countries: the G-7, 1920-2005 217 -- Post-industrialism, the service economy, and the informational society 218 -- The transformation of employment structure, 1920-1970 and 1970-1990 224 -- The new occupational structure 232 -- The maturing of the informational society: employment projections into the twenty first century 237 -- Summing up: the evolution of employment structure and its implications for a comparative analysis of the informational society 243 -- Is There a Global Labor Force ? 247 -- The Work Process in the Informational Paradigm 255 -- The Effects of Informational Technology on Employment : Toward a Jobless Society ? 267 -- Work and the Informational Divide: Flex timers 281 -- Information Technology and the Restructuring of Capital Labor Relations : Social Dualism or Fragmented Societies? 296 -- Appendix A : Statistical Tables for Chapter 4 303 -- Appendix B: Methodological Note and Statistical References 338 -- 5 The Culture of Real Virtuality : the Integration of Electronic Communication, the End of the Mass Audience, and the Rise of Interactive Networks 355 -- From the Gutenberg Galaxy to the McLuhan Galaxy: the Rise of Mass Media Culture 358 -- The New Media and the Diversification of Mass Audience 365 -- Computer-mediated Communication, Institutional Control, Social Networks, and Virtual Communities 371 -- The Minitel story: l'état et l'amour 372 -- The Internet constellation 375 -- The interactive society 385 -- The Grand Fusion : Multimedia as Symbolic Environment 394 -- The Culture of Real Virtuality 403 -- 6 The Space of Flows 407 -- Advanced Services, Information Flows, and the Global City 409 -- The New Industrial Space 417 -- Everyday Life in the Electronic Cottage: the End of Cities? 427 -- The Transformation of Urban Form: the Informational City 429 -- America's last suburban frontier 429 -- The fading charm of European cities 431 -- Third millennium urbanization: mega cities 434 -- The Social Theory of Space and the Theory of the Space of Flows 440 -- The Architecture of the End of History 448 -- Space of Flows and Space of Places 453 -- 7 The Edge of Forever: Timeless Time 460 -- Time, History, and Society 461 -- Time as the Source of Value: the Global Casino 465 -- Flex time and the Network Enterprise 467 -- The Shrinking and Twisting of Life Working Time 468 -- The Blurring of the Life-cycle: Toward Social Arrhythmia? 475 -- Death Denied 481 -- Instant Wars 484 -- Virtual Time 491 -- Time, Space, and Society: the Edge of Forever 494 -- Conclusion: the Network Society 500 -- Summary of the Contents of Volumes Il and III 510 -- Bibliography 512 -- Index 566 -- ER -