a ISBN 0-553-29215-3

a ISBN 978-05-5329215-2

a ISBN 0-553-05776-6

a ISBN 978-05-5305776-8

a ISBN 0-553-18086-X

a ISBN 978-05-5318086-2

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number HN17.5

b Item number .T6417 1991

a Dewey Classification 303.4

a Personal name Toffler, Alvin

a Title Powershift :

b Remainder of title knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century /

c Statement of responsibility, etc Alvin Toffler.

h Medium BOOK

a Title proper/short title Power shift

a Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Bantam books,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 1991.

a Extent xxii, 611 pages ;

c Dimensions 18 cm

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-549) and index.

a Formatted contents note The powershift era -- Muscle, money, and mind -- Beyond the age of glitz -- Force : the Yakuza component -- Wealth : Morgan, Milken--and after -- Knowledge : a wealth of symbols -- Material-ismo! -- The ultimate substitute -- The checkout battle -- Extra-intelligence -- Net power -- The widening war -- The executive thought police -- Total information war -- The cubbyhole crash -- The flex-firm -- Tribal chiefs and corporate commissars -- The autonomous employee -- The power-mosaic -- Coda : the new system for wealth creation -- The decisive decades -- The invisible party -- Info-tactics --Meta-tactics -- A market for spies -- The info-agenda -- The image makers -- Subversive media -- The "screenie" generation -- Coda : yearnings for a new dark age -- The global "K-factor" -- The fast and the slow -- Socialism's collision with the future -- The power of balance -- Triads : Tokyo, Berlin, Washington -- The global gladiators -- Coda : freedom, order, and chance.

a Summary, etc Discusses power at the edge of the 21st century. Deals with violence, wealth and knowledge and the roles they play in our lives; and discusses new paths to power opened by a world of upheaval.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social history

y Chronological subdivision 1945-

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Economic history

y Chronological subdivision 1945-

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Power (Social sciences)

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social change