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Rise of the Knowledge Worker (Resources for the Knowledge-Based
Economy)
by James W. Cortada (Editor)
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Series: Why Knowledge, Why Now?
By Laurence Prusak
- Preface
- Introducing the Knowledge Worker
- Pt. 1. A New Profession Is Born: The Knowledge Worker
- 1. Where Did Knowledge Workers Come From?
- By James W. Cortada
- 2. Gender and the Masculine Business Professions
- By Sharon Hartman Strom
- 3. The Role of the Librarian
- By James Kendall Hosmer
- 4. The Middle Class
- By C. Wright Mills
- Pt. 2. Recognition of the New Professions
- 5. Personnel Resources in the Social Sciences and Humanities
- Contributors: U.S. Department of Labor
- 6. Knowledge Production and Occupational Structure (1)
- By Fritz Machlup
- 7. Knowledge Production and Occupational Structure (2)
- By Michael Rogers Rubin, Mary Taylor Huber
- 8. The Information Economy: Definition and Measurement
- By Marc Uri Porat
- 9. The New Industrial Society
- By Jorge Reina Schement, Terry Curtis
- 10. Is the United States Becoming an Information Economy?
- By William J. Baumol, Sue Anne Batey Blackman, Edward N. Wolff
- Pt. 3. Social and Personal Consequences
- 11. Daniel Bell and the Post-industrial Society
- By Malcolm Waters
- 12. Planning for an Uncertain Future: Socializing Information
- By Simon Nora, Alain Minc
- 13. Employment in the Information Society
- Contributors: European Commission
- 14. The White-Collar Body in History
- By Shoshana Zuboff
- 15. Toward an Ecology of Knowledge: On Discipline, Context, and History
- By Charles Rosenberg
- Index
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