Rise of the knowledge worker [electronic resource] / James W. Cortada, editor.
A generation of magnificent scholars, from Peter Drucker to Jack Welch, have taught us that understanding business issues and the profound changes the world's economy is undergoing makes sense if set in historical context. Today the best managers in the world demand to know how things came to b...
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Table of Contents:
- A New Profession is Born: The Knowledge Worker * Recognition of the New Professions * Social and Personal Consequences.
- pt. 1. A new profession is born: the knowledge worker : Where did knowledge workers come from? / James W. Cortada
- Gender and the masculine business professions / Sharon Hartman Strom
- The role of the librarian / James Kendall Hosmer
- The middle class / C. Wright Mills
- pt. 2. Recognition of the new professions : Personnel resources in the social sciences and humanities / U.S. Dept. of Labor
- Knowledge production and occupational structure (1) / Fritz Machlup
- Knowledge production and occupational structure (2) / Michael Rogers Rubin and Mary Taylor Huber
- The information economy: definition and measurement / Marc Uri Porat
- The new industrial society / Jorge Reina Schement and Terry Curtis
- Is the United States becoming an information economy? / William J. Baumol, Sue Anne Batey Blackman, and Edward N. Wolff
- pt. 3. Daniel Bell and the post-industrial society / Malcolm Waters
- Planning for an uncertain future: socializing information / Simon Nora and Alain Minc
- Employment in the information society / European Commission
- The white-collar body in history / Shoshana Zuboff
- Toward an ecology of knowledge: on discipline, context, and history / Charles Rosenberg.