TY  - BOOK
AU  - McChesney,Robert Waterman
AU  - Wood,Ellen Meiksins
AU  - Foster,John Bellamy
TI  - Capitalism and the information age: the political economy of the global communication revolution 
SN  - 0853459894
PY  - 1998///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Monthly Review Press
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Computers
KW  - Capitalism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Are the new technologies of the information age reshaping the labor force, transforming communications, changing the potential of democracy, and altering the course of history itself? Capitalism and the Information Age presents a rigorous examination of some of the most crucial problems and possibilities of these novel technologies. Not a day goes by that we don't see a news clip, hear a radio report, or read an article heralding the miraculous new technologies of the information age. The communication revolution associated with these technologies is often heralded as the key to a new age of'globalization.' How is all of this reshaping the labor force, transforming communications, changing the potential of democracy, and altering the course of history itself? Capitalism and the Information Age presents a rigorous examination of some of the most crucial problems and possibilities of these novel technologies
ER  -