Krishan Kumar 
From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society [PDF ebook] 
New Theories of the Contemporary World

The second edition of this classic study, revised with a new and
substantial opening chapter.

* New edition of a classic study by a leading social
theorist

* Explores three major ideas crucial to contemporary social
theory: the information society, post-Fordism, and
post-modernism

* Places the three key ideas within the context of contemporary
discourse on globalization.

Table of Content

Preface to the Second Edition.

Preface to First Edition..

1 Rethinking Modernity.

2 The Revival of Post-Industrial Theory..

3 The Information Society..

4 Fordism and Post-Fordism..

5 Modernity and Post-Modernity (1): The Idea of the Modern..

6 Modernity and Post-Modernity (2): The Idea of
Post-Modernity..

7 Millennial Themes: Endings and Beginnings..

Notes.

References.

Index.

About the author

Krishan Kumar is Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Since publishing the first edition of From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society, he has co-edited Public and Private in Thought and Practice (1987) and written 1989: Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals (2001) and The Making of English National Identity (2003).