Industrial Societies (Routledge Revivals) by Richard Scase - 9781138842724

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Industrial Societies (Routledge Revivals)Crisis and Division in Western Capatalism\nAuthor(s): Richard Scase\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138842724, 978-1138842724\nSynopsis\nThis book, first published in 1989, addresses an issue that stood at the centre of sociological concern the changing character of industrial societies. \n\nThe authors examine the nature of the industrialization process, in terms of its impact upon and development within both state socialist and capitalist societies. Is industrialism a constant phenomenon within both kinds of society, or are distinctive differences apparent? In the 1960s, it did seem that economic growth and technological change were producing similarities in social structure between the different socio-political systems; it now appears however that the crisis that have developed during the 1980s how illustrated their contrasts. Through the analysis of this trend in then