The Poverty of progress : changing ways of life in industrial societies / edited by Ian Miles and John Irvine with Monica Wemegah and Dag Poleszynski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miles, Ian.

Irvine, John, active 1979-

United Nations University.

Society for International Development.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social history--1970---Congresses.

Social history.

Quality of life--Congresses.

Quality of life.

Social change--Congresses.

Social change.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 344 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, [1982]

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.

Notes:

"Selected proceedings of two international conferences on 'alternative ways of life', organised 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."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0080289061 :

OCLC:

7925554