Post-Industrial Lives: Roles and Relationships in the 21st Century - Couverture souple

Hage, Jerald; Powers, Charles H.

 
9780803944954: Post-Industrial Lives: Roles and Relationships in the 21st Century

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The move from an industrial to a post-industrial society has been documented by many, as has the impact of this new order on the macro-level institutions of society - government, the workplace and the economy. But what does post-industrial life mean to the individual and for relationships between people? Hage and Powers examine that question, linking global changes in the work patterns, information flow and knowledge to the practice of everyday life.

Their answer is that the complexification of society requires a different kind of person. Creativity, flexibility and emotional astuteness will become the watchwords of the future, personality traits that will enable people to successfully adapt to the ever-changing swirl of wo

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9780803944947: Post-Industrial Lives: Roles and Relationships in the 21st Century

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ISBN 10 :  0803944942 ISBN 13 :  9780803944947
Editeur : SAGE Publications Inc, 1992
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