End of millennium /
Manuel Castells.
- 2nd ed., with a new preface.
- Oxford ; Malden : Blackwell Publishers, 2010.
- xxx, 456 p. : ill. map ; 23 cm.
- The information age: economy, society and culture ; v. 3 .
- Castells, Manuel, 1942- Information age v. 3 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A time of change -- Ch. 1. The crisis of industrial statism and the collapse of the Soviet Union -- Ch. 2. The rise of the Fourth World: informational capitalism, poverty, and social exclusion -- Ch. 3. The perverse connection: the global criminal economy -- Ch. 4. Development and the crisis in the Asian Pacific: globalization and the state -- Ch. 5. The unification of Europe: globalization, identity, and the Network State -- Conclusion: Making sense of our world.
This final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy, with a substantial new preface, is devoted to processes of global social change induced by the transition from the old industrial society to the emerging global network society. * Explains why China, rather than Japan, is the economic and political actor that is revolutionizing the global system; * Reflects on the contradictions of European unification, proposing the concept of the network state; * Substantial new preface assesses the validity of the theoretical construction presented in the conclusion of the trilogy, proposing some conceptual modifications in light of the observed experience.
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Social history--1970- Economic history--1990- Technology and civilization Information society Information technology--Social aspects Information technology--Political aspects