Understanding Industrial Society

ROBIN THEOBALD is Principal Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Westminster and a visiting lecturer at the City University, London. He has also taught sociology at the University of Jos, Nigeria. A previous book he wrote in collaboration with Vicky Randall, Political Change and Underdevelopment, was nominated by Choice as an 'outstanding academic book' in 1987, and his Corruption, Development and Underdevelopment was nominated in 1990 for one of the six Pitré-Salomone Marino prizes awarded annually by the Centro Internazionale di Etnostoria, Palermo.

• Preface Business and Society One World, One Economy Capitalism and Industrialism Welfare Capitalism Corporations and Managers The Organisation of Work Mass Production in Crisis Beyond Industrial Society? Concluding Remarks: Beyond Capitalism? Index.