The global community, 1975-2000

Poggio, Pier Paolo.

Book 2003

Looks at how industrialization since 1968, particularly in communication and information science, transformed economic, political, and social structures, and created insecurity in developed countries and desperation in underdeveloped ones.

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Part of a Series:

Poggio, Pier Paolo. Road to globalization Poggio, Pier Paolo. Road to globalization ; 5 Road to globalization Road to globalization ; 5

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ISBN:

0791070964

Description:

31 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 34 cm

Notes:

Includes index

Contents:

Industrialized and multinational agriculture
Overpopulation, demographic decline, and new diseases
Megalopolises in the Third World and multiethnicity in the West
Automation and decentralization in the post-Ford era
The search for alternative energy sources
Electronics and information science
The airplane in mass society
Theinformation age: computers and cell phones: the new necessity
The collapse of socialism and the rise of neo-conservatism
Feminism, environmentalism, and the culture of uniqueness
The individual and the collective

LCCN:

2002011530

Control Number:

169748

Other Authors:

Bacchin, Giorgio
Simoni, Carlo

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