Signed first edition of this prescient classic — inscribed in the year of publication to fellow sociologist George Homans.
Very good plus in a very good jacket.
Price: $2,000.00
"The major problem for the post-industrial society will be adequate numbers of trained persons of professional and technical caliber."
Bell's COMING OF POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY in many ways foresaw the world in which we live today: one moving away from manufacturing and agriculture to one based on information, service, and knowledge work. Although he didn't originate the idea of the post-industrial society (that would be Alain Touraine), Bell did popularize it — and its influence continues to reverberate. This copy is inscribed to George Homans, one of the founders of behavioral sociology. Homans and Bell were longtime colleagues at Harvard, and Bell penned Homan's obituary for THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, writing: "George Caspar Homans was uniquely a humanist and a sociologist, among the last, one might say, of a generation." An important association of an important and influential book.
First printing. New York: Basic Books, (1973). Full title: The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting. 9.25'' x 6''. Publisher's full tan cloth. In original unclipped ($12.50) color pictorial jacket, designed by Jacqueline Schuman. xiv, 508, [2] pages. Inscribed by Bell on the front free endpaper: "For George & Nancy [Homans] / with affection / Dan Bell / Chilmark / July 13, 1973." Book has slight lean, minor shelfwear, soil. Jacket a bit edgeworn, with fading to the spine. Overall, clean and sound.
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