Beyond computopia : information, automation and democracy in Japan
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Beyond computopia : information, automation and democracy in Japan
(Japanese studies)
Routledge, 2014
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
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  Switzerland
  France
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Note
Reprint. Originally published: Kegan Paul International, 1988
Copyright 1988 by author
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
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
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