From post-industrial to post-modern society (1995)

In this study of an 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’. Explaning how these theories developed and why they have held such an appeal in our late twentieth-century era, the author provides the most readable and evenly-balanced account to date of three very different, but overlapping paradigms of contemporary social thought. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding these new theories of the contemparary world.