Volume 18, Number 6 · April 6, 1972
Three Authors in Search of a Proletariat
By Tom Bottomore
The Post-Industrial Society
by Alain Touraine
Random House, 233 pp., $7.95
Critical Theory of Society
by Albrecht Wellmer
Herder and Herder, 139 pp., $6.95
Toward a Critical Sociology
by Norman Birnbaum
Oxford University Press, 451 pp., $10.95
According to Alain Touraine: 'A new type of society is now being formed. These new societies can be labeled post-industrial to stress how different they are from the industrial societies that preceded them…. They may also be called technocratic because of the power that dominates them. Or one can call them programmed societies to define them according to the nature of their production methods and economic organization.'[1]
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