From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society: New Theories of the Contemporary World

In this lucid and insightful study of a crucial area of current debate, Krishan Kumar introduces and assesses the rival claims of three hotly contested theories of contemporary social, cultural and economic change: the idea of the information society, and the theories of post-Fordism and post-modernity. Explaining how these theories developed and why they have held such an appeal in our era, the author provides the most readable and evenly-balanced account to date of three very different, but overlapping, paradigms of contemporary social thought.