Beyond Computopia / Edition 1

by Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Overview

First published in 1988. The author’s purpose in writing this book is neither to offer any specific lessons from Japan's experience, nor to add to the warnings of the 'Japanese menace' to western technological hegemony. The aim and perspective of this book is to use the study of Japan as a means of outlining a theory of information society which will be radically different, from the ideas put forward by most Japanese theorists of the subject.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780710302939
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/04/1988
Series:	Japanese Studies
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 2 The Technocrats' Utopia: Plans for an Information Society 3 The Plans in Action: Information Society Policies in Japan 4 The Information Society: Beyond Ideology 5 Information Capitalism: an Alternative Analysis of the Information Society 6 Employment and Unemployment in Japan's Information Society 7 Informisation' at Work: the Quality of Work in the Information Society 8 More Intellectual Work? The Structure of Employment in the Information Society 9 Mapping the Future: Information Technology, Centralisation and Decentralisation 10 Organised Labour and Information Capitalism 11 Towards an Alternative Utopia Appendix Categorisation of the Occupational