The Rise of the Network Society

by Castells, Manuel

• ISBN13: 9781557866165
• ISBN10: 1557866163
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-09-01
• Publisher: Blackwell Pub

Table of Contents

List of figures	x
List of tables	xii
Acknowledgements	xv
Prologue: The net and the self	1	(468)
Technology, society, and historical change	5	(8)
Informationalism, industrialism, capitalism, statism: modes of development and modes of production	13	(9)
Informationalism and capitalist perestroyka	18	(4)
The self in the informational society	22	(3)
A word on method	25	(4)
The Information Technology Revolution	29	(37)
Which revolution?	29	(5)
Lessons from the Industrial Revolution	34	(6)
The historical sequence of the Information Technology Revolution	40	(13)
Micro-engineering macro changes: electronics and information	41	(5)
The 1970s technological divide	46	(1)
Technologies of life	47	(3)
Social context and the dynamics of technological change	50	(3)
Models, actors, and sites of the Information Technology Revolution	53	(7)
The information technology paradigm	60	(6)
The informational economy and the process of globalization	66	(85)
Introduction	66	(1)
Productivity, competitiveness, and the informational economy	67	(25)
The productivity enigma	67	(2)
Is knowledge-based productivity specific to the informational economy?	69	(11)
Informationalism and capitalism, productivity and profitability	80	(8)
The repoliticization of informational capitalism	88	(3)
The historical specificity of informationalism	91	(1)
The global economy: genesis, structure, and dynamics	92	(14)
The limits to globalization	97	(2)
The regional differentiation of the global economy	99	(3)
The segmentation of the global economy	102	(1)
The sources of competitiveness in the global economy	103	(3)
The newest international division of labor	106	(39)
Changing patterns of international division of labor in the informational/global economy: triad power, the rise of the Pacific, and the end of the Third World	107	(8)
Sources of growth and stagnation in the international division of labor: the changing fortunes of Latin America	115	(18)
The dynamics of exclusion from the new global economy: Africa's fate?	133	(3)
The last frontier of the global economy: the segmented incorporation of Russia and the ex-Soviet republics	136	(9)
The architecture and geometry of the informational/global economy	145	(3)
Appendix: Some methodological comments on adjustment policies in Africa and their evaluation	148	(3)
The network enterprise: the culture, institutions, and organizations of the informational economy	151	(50)
Introduction	151	(1)
Organizational trajectories in the restructuring of capitalism and in the transition from industrialism to informationalism	152	(16)
From mass production to flexible production	154	(1)
Small business and the crisis of the large corporation: myth and reality	155	(2)
``Toyotism'': management-worker cooperation, multifunctional labor, total quality control, and reduction of uncertainty	157	(3)
Interfirm networking	160	(2)
Corporate strategic alliances	162	(2)
The horizontal corporation and global business networks	164	(3)
The crisis of the vertical corporation model and the rise of business networks	167	(1)
Information technology and the network enterprise	168	(4)
Culture, institutions, and economic organization: East Asian business networks	172	(18)
A typology of East Asian business networks	174	(5)
Culture, organizations and institutions: Asian business networks and the developmental state	179	(11)
Multinational enterprises, transnational corporations, and international networks	190	(5)
The spirit of informationalism	195	(6)
The transformation of work and employment: networkers, jobless, and flextimers	201	(126)
The historical evolution of employment and occupational structure in advanced capitalist countries: the G-7, 1920--2005	202	(30)
Postindustrialism, the service economy, and the informational society	203	(5)
The transformation of employment structure, 1920--1970 and 1970--1990	208	(8)
The new occupational structure	216	(5)
The maturing of the informational society: employment projections to the twenty-first century	221	(7)
Summing up: the evolution of employment structure and its implications for a comparative analysis of the informational society	228	(4)
Is there a global labor force?	232	(8)
The work process in the informational paradigm	240	(11)
The effects of information technology on employment: toward a jobless society?	251	(13)
Work and the informational divide: flextimers	264	(8)
Information technology and the restructuring of capital--labor relationships: social dualism or fragmented societies?	272	(9)
Appendix A: Statistical tables for chapter 4	281	(30)
Appendix B: Methodological note and statistical references	311	(16)
The culture of real virtuality: the integration of electronic communication, the end of the mass audience, and the rise of interactive networks	327	(49)
Introduction	327	(3)
From the Gutenberg galaxy to the McLuhan galaxy: the rise of mass media culture	330	(7)
The new media and the diversification of mass audience	337	(5)
Computer-mediated communication, institutional control, social networks, and virtual communities	342	(22)
The Minitel story: l'etat et l'amour	343	(2)
The Internet constellation	345	(13)
The interactive society	358	(6)
The grand fusion: multimedia as symbolic environment	364	(8)
The culture of real virtuality	372	(4)
The space of flows	376	(53)
Introduction	376	(2)
Advanced services, information flows, and the global city	378	(8)
The new industrial space	386	(8)
Everyday life in the electronic cottage: the end of cities?	394	(4)
The transformation of urban form: the informational city	398	(12)
America's last suburban frontier	399	(2)
The fading charm of European cities	401	(2)
Third millennium urbanization: megacities	403	(7)
The social theory of space and the theory of the space of flows	410	(8)
The architecture of the end of history	418	(5)
Space of flows and space of places	423	(6)
The edge of forever: timeless time	429	(40)
Introduction	429	(40)
Time, history, and society	430	(4)
Time as the source of value: the global casino	434	(3)
Flextime and the network enterprise	437	(2)
The shrinking and twisting of life working time	439	(6)
The blurring of lifecycle: toward social arrhythmia?	445	(6)
Death denied	451	(3)
Instant wars	454	(7)
Virtual time	461	(3)
Time, space, and society: the edge of forever	464	(5)
Conclusion: The network society	469	(10)
Summary of contents of Volumes II and III	479	(2)
Bibliography	481	(52)
Index	533