The Evolution of Industrial Systems: The Forking Paths (Routledge Library Editions: Business and Economics in Asia) - Hardcover

Leggatt, Timothy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138352977 ISBN 13: 9781138352971

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

This book, first published in 1985, tackles simultaneously three major questions about the course of industrial evolution: what are the features of the industrial systems that have developed outside Western capitalism? What are the salient evolutionary developments now occurring in all advanced capitalist systems? What light can social theory throw upon the evolution of industrial systems thus far and in the future? In answering these questions the author provides an exposition of how the Soviet system works and how the Japanese system developed; a critical analysis of three issues of major contemporary concern – the control of giant corporations, the impact of automation, and the shift to service employment; and a commentary on the theories of classical and contemporary social thinkers. Concluding with his own conceptualisation of the determinants of industrial evolution, the author also offers his own evaluation of the needs of the advanced industrial societies.

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Timothy Leggatt

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138352977
• ISBN 13: 9781138352971
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270