CONTENTS
List of Figures = xii
List of Tables = xiv
Acknowledgments 2000 = xvii
Acknowledgments 1996 = xxvi
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 pervasive computing = 51
The I 970s' 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 labor? = 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 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 Information 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'$$e'$$tat 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? = 424
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 Ⅱ and Ⅲ = 510
Bibliography = 512
Index = 566
