Powershift
Subtitle: knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century
By: Alvin Toffler.
Edition: Paperback ed.
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 611
Subjects: Social history -- 1945-; Economic history -- 1945-; Power (Social sciences); Social change
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-501) and index.
Table of contents: title: The powershift era; title: Muscle, money, and mind; title: Beyond the age of glitz; title: Force : the Yakuza component; title: Wealth : Morgan, Milken; title: and after; title: Knowledge : a wealth of symbols; title: Material-ismo!; title: The ultimate substitute; title: The checkout battle; title: Extra-intelligence; title: Net power; title: The widening war; title: The executive thought police; title: Total information war; title: The cubbyhole crash; title: The flex-firm; title: Tribal chiefs and corporate commissars; title: The autonomous employee; title: The power-mosaic; title: CODA : the new system for wealth creation; title: The decisive decades; title: The invisible party; title: Info-tactics; title: Meta-tactics; title: A market for spies; title: The info-agenda; title: The image makers; title: Subversive media; title: The "screenie" generation; title: CODA : yearnings for a new dark age; title: The global "K-factor"; title: The fast and the slow; title: Socialism's collision with the future; title: The power of balance; title: Triads : Tokyo; title: Berlin; title: Washington; title: The global gladiators; title: CODA : freedom, order, and chance.