unit-4-post-industrial-society

Unit-4 Post-Industrial Society

Learn about the effects of technological advancements on capitalist societies.

What is the nature of change in the production process of the post-industrial society?




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Written on Apr 15, 2019 1:44:20 PM

Waterways for example facilitated iron and steel industries to come up in a concentrated form, example in Detroit. With communication technologies and transport, developing industrial units can be located in a dispersed fashion. Production of textile goods for example. can mean having production and design units in locations in different parts of the world_ You can send design online to a production firm located in South Asia from the U.S. This designers individual requirements can be speedily catered to. Today many production and-design units of textile industry in the U.S. are located in different countries of South Asia. There is a new approach to production using information technology. As a result there is a flattening out of the traditional management structure. Hierarchical decision making of the industrial factory pollution is now replaced by mute-skilled teams with groups of workers collaborating at every stage, from design to quality control.