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9780631221401

The Rise of The Network Society: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Volume I, 2nd Edition

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  • Edition: 2nd
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  • Copyright: 2000-08-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

This book, the first in Castells' ground-breaking trilogy, is an account of the economic and social dynamics of the new age of information. Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, it aims to formulate a systematic theory of the information society which takes account of the fundamental effects of information technology on the contemporary world. 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. Manuel Castells describes the accelerating pace of innovation and social transformation. He examines the processes of globalization that threaten to make redundant whole countries and peoples excluded from informational networks. He investigates the culture, institutions, and organizations of the network enterprise and the concomitant transformation of work and employment. He shows that in the advanced economies production is now concentrated on an educated section of the population aged between 25 and 40. He suggests that the effect of this accelerating trend may not be mass unemployment but the extreme flexibilization of work and individualization of labor, and, in consequence, a highly segmented social structure. This new edition of The Rise of the Network Society has been substantially modified and details the new social and economic developments brought by the Internet and the 'new economy'. The volume has been updated throughout to take account of changes since its original publication.

Author Biography

Manuel Castells, born in Spain in 1942, is Professor of Sociology, and of City and Regional Planning, at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was appointed in 1979, after teaching for 12 years at the University of Paris. He has also taught and researched at the Universities of Madrid, Chile, Montreal, Campinas, Caracas, Mexico, Geneva, Copenhagen, Wisconsin, Boston, Southern California, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Amsterdam, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Hitotsubashi, and Barcelona. He has published 20 books, including The Informational City (1989). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of the C. Wright Mills Award, and of the Robert and Helen Lynd Award. He is a member of the European Academy. The Information Age is translated into 11 languages.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
xii
List of Tables
xiv
Acknowledgments 2000 xvii
Acknowledgments 1996 xxvi
Prologue: the Net and the Self 1(4)
Technology, Society, and Historical Change
5(8)
Informationalism, Industrialism, Capitalism, Statism: Modes of Development and Modes of Production
13(8)
Informationalism and capitalist perestroika
18(3)
The Self in the Informational Society
21(4)
A Word on Method
25(3)
The Information Technology Revolution
28(49)
Which Revolution?
28(5)
Lessons from the Industrial Revolution
33(5)
The Historical Sequence of the Information Technology Revolution
38(23)
Micro-engineering macro-changes: electronics and information
39(6)
The creation of the Internet
45(6)
Network technologies and pervasive computing
51(2)
The 1970s' technological divide
53(1)
Technologies of life
54(5)
Social context and the dynamics of technological change
59(2)
Models, Actors, and Sites of the Information Technology Revolution
61(8)
The Information Technology Paradigm
69(8)
The New Economy: Informationalism, Globalization, Networking
77(86)
Productivity, Competitiveness, and the Informational Economy
78(23)
The productivity enigma
78(2)
Is Knowledge-based productivity specific to the informational economy?
80(14)
Informationalism and capitalism, productivity and profitability
94(5)
The historical specificity of informationalism
99(2)
The Global Economy: Structure, Dynamics, and Genesis
101(46)
Global financial markets
102(4)
Globalization of markets for goods and services: growth and transformation of international trade
106(4)
Globalization versus regionalization
110(6)
The internationalization of production: multinational corporations and international production networks
116(8)
Informational production and selective globalization of science and technology
124(6)
Global labor?
130(2)
The geometry of the global economy: segments and networks
132(3)
The political economy of globalization: capitalist restructuring, information technology, and state policies
135(12)
The New Economy
147(16)
The Network Enterprise: the Culture, Institutions, and Organizations of the Informational Economy
163(53)
Organizational Trajectories in the Restructuring of Capitalism and in the Transition from Industrialism to Informationalism
164(20)
From mass production to flexible production
166(1)
Small business and the crisis of the large corporation: myth and reality
167(2)
``Toyotism'': management-worker cooperation, multifunctional labor, total quality control, and reduction of uncertainty
169(3)
Inter-firm networking
172(2)
Corporate strategic alliances
174(2)
The horizontal corporation and global business networks
176(2)
The crisis of the vertical corporation model and the rise of business networks
178(2)
Networking the networks: the Cisco model
180(4)
Information Technology and the Network Enterprise
184(4)
Culture, Institutions, and Economic Organization: East Asian Business Networks
188(18)
A typology of East Asian business networks
189(1)
Japan
190(1)
Korea
191(2)
China
193(2)
Culture, organizations, and institutions: Asian business networks and the developmental state
195(11)
Multinational Enterprises, Transnational Corporations, and International Networks
206(4)
The Spirit of Informationalism
210(6)
The Transformation of Work and Employment: Networkers, Jobless, and Flex-timers
216(139)
The Historical Evolution of Employment and Occupational Structure in Advanced Capitalist Countries: the G--7, 1920--2005
217(30)
Post-industralism, the service economy, and the informational society
218(6)
The transformation of employment structure, 1920--1970 and 1970--1990
224(8)
The new occupational structure
232(5)
The maturing of the informational society: employment projections into the twenty-first century
237(6)
Summing up: the evolution of employment structure and its implications for a comparative analysis of the informational society
243(4)
Is There a Global Labor Force?
247(8)
The Work Process in the Informational Paradigm
255(12)
The Effects of Information Technology on Employment: Toward a Jobless Society?
267(14)
Work and the Informational Divide: Flex-timers
281(15)
Information Technology and the Restructuring of Capital-Labor Relations: Social Dualism or Fragmented Societies?
296(59)
Appendix A: Statistical Tables for Chapter 4
303(35)
Appendix B: Methodological Note and Statistical References
338(17)
The Culture of Real Virtuality: the Integration of Electronic Communication, the End of the Mass Audience, and the Rise of Interactive Networks
355(52)
From the Gutenberg Galaxy to the McLuhan Galaxy: the Rise of Mass Media Culture
358(7)
The New Media and the Diversification of Mass Audience
365(6)
Computer-mediated Communication, Institutional Control, Social Networks, and Virtual Communities
371(23)
The Minitel story: l'etat et l'amour
372(3)
The Internet constellation
375(10)
The interactive society
385(9)
The Grand Fusion: Multimedia as Symbolic Environment
394(9)
The Culture of Real Virtuality
403(4)
The Space of Flows
407(53)
Advanced Services, Information Flows, and the Global City
409(8)
The New Industrial Space
417(7)
Everyday Life in the Electronic Cottage: the End of Cities?
424(5)
The Transformation of Urban Form: the Informational City
429(11)
America's last suburban frontier
429(2)
The fading charm of European cities
431(3)
Third millennium urbanization: mega-cities
434(6)
The Social Theory of Space and the Theory of the Space of Flows
440(8)
The Architecture of the End of History
448(5)
Space of Flows and Space of Places
453(7)
The Edge of Forever: Timeless Time
460(40)
Time, History, and Society
461(4)
Time as the Source of Value: the Global Casino
465(2)
Flex-time and the Network Enterprise
467(1)
The Shrinking and Twisting of Life Working Time
468(7)
The Blurring of the Life-cycle: Toward Social Arrhythmia?
475(6)
Death Denied
481(3)
Instant Wars
484(7)
Virtual Time
491(3)
Time, Space, and Society: the Edge of Forever
494(6)
Conclusion: the Network Society 500(10)
Summary of the Contents of Volumes II and III 510(2)
Bibliography 512(54)
Index 566

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