Post-Industrial Lives

Download or read book Post-Industrial Lives written by Jerald Hage and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1992-06-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The move from an industrial to a post-industrial society has been documented by many, as has the impact of this new order on the macro-level institutions of society - government, the workplace and the economy. But what does post-industrial life mean to the individual and for relationships between people? Hage and Powers examine that question, linking global changes in the work patterns, information flow and knowledge to the practice of everyday life. Their answer is that the complexification of society requires a different kind of person. Creativity, flexibility and emotional astuteness will become the watchwords of the future, personality traits that will enable people to successfully adapt to the ever-changing swirl of wo