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The Poverty of progress : changing ways of life in industrial societies
- Title
- The Poverty of progress : changing ways of life in industrial societies / edited by Ian Miles, John Irvine with Monica Wemegah, and Dag Poleszynski.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1982.
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- Description
- xxiii, 344 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Selected proceedings of two international conferences on 'alternative ways of life', organized by the Goals, Processes, and Indicators of Development Project of the United Nations University and by the Society for International Development, held in Cartigny, Switzerland, 1978, and Trappeto, Sicily, 1979."
- Subject
- Since 1970
- Social history > 1970- > Congresses
- Quality of life > Congresses
- Social change > Congresses
- Quality of life
- Social change
- Social history
- Lebensqualität
- Kongress
- Mudanca Social
- Poverty > Congresses
- Kongress
- SOCIAL CHANGE
- QUALITY OF LIFE
- SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS
- STATISTICAL DATA
- UNITED STATES
- NORWAY
- SWITZERLAND
- UNITED KINGDOM
- POLAND
- NETHERLANDS
- DENMARK
- JAPAN
- DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
- SOCIAL RESEARCH
- ECONOMIC RESEARCH
- DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES
- SOCIAL HISTORY
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Actes de congrès.
- Note
- "Selected proceedings of two international conferences on 'alternative ways of life', organized by the Goals, Processes, and Indicators of Development Project of the United Nations University and by the Society for International Development, held in Cartigny, Switzerland, 1978, and Trappeto, Sicily, 1979."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / John Irvine and Ian Miles -- Why the concern with ways of life? / Johan Galtung, Dag Polsezynski, and Monica Wemegah -- The 'abundant society' and world order / Steven Arnold and Denis Goulet -- The dominant way of life in Switzerland / Monica Wemegah -- The dominant way of life in Britain / John Irvine and Ian Miles -- On ways of life in Poland / Andrzej Siciński -- Alternative ways of life in the Netherlands / Anneke Schipper-van Otterloo and Peter Ester -- Alternative ways of life in Denmark / Jens Falkentorp ... [et al.] -- From things to experiences / Hidetoshi Kato -- Another development for Europe in the 1980s / Richard Jolly -- Establishing alternative ways of life / Ian Miles and John Irvine.
- ISBN
- 0080289061
- 9780080289069
- 008027935X
- 9780080279350
- LCCN
- 81017779
- OCLC
- ocm07925554
- 7925554
- SCSB-49640
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library