Gershuny J () (Department of Sociology and St Hugh's College, University of Oxford)
Abstract
There are three meanings of "industrial", the first two taking industry as a concrete noun, the third as an abstract: * "industries" as a general term for branches of economic activity or production * "industry" as a particular branch, manufacturing * "industry" as a description of an approach to the activity of work. And there are (at least) three ways in which we have now passed beyond the "industrial" phase of economic development: * The emergence of "value chains" as a new form of economic organisations: the disaggregation of industrial structure and the growing importance of human capital versus industrial capital. * Self-servicing versus service industries: understanding technical change by thinking of "systems of provision for wants", which combine production, reproduction and consumption. * Developing Veblen's leisure theory: industry is progressively replaced by exploit as a core characteristic of paid work. The arguments that follow rely (mostly, for the moment) on empirical evidence from time diary studies.
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Length: 25 Date of creation: 15 Jun 2005 Date of revision: Publication status: published Handle: RePEc:ese:iserwp:2005-07
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