Cover -- TECHNOLOGICAL GROWTH AND SOCIAL CHANGE -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- PART ONE PROCESS AND SYMPTOM -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Dilemma of the Technologically Advanced Society -- THE RANGE OF THE PROBLEM -- Uneven Internal Development -- Individual Isolation -- Employment -- Growing Military Control -- The Family -- Uncontrolled Urban Growth -- Class and Race Relations -- Education -- Statecraft -- THE FOLKLORE OF THE MATERIALLY ADVANCED SOCIETY -- Economic Folklore -- Commercial Folklore -- Externally Directed Folklore -- 3. The Dilemma of the Transitional Society -- THE UNORGANIZED SOCIAL BASE -- FOOD PRODUCTION -- INDUSTRIALIZATION -- COMMERCE -- EDUCATION -- UNCONTROLLED POPULATION GROWTH -- CONCLUSIONS -- PART TWO OLD CONCEPTS -- 4. Economic Hypotheses on Development -- CONVENTIONAL ECONOMIC VIEWPOINTS -- FREE ENTERPRISE APPROACHES TO DEVELOPMENT -- Capital Formation -- Limitations of Capital Formation Hypotheses -- The Search for Entrepreneurship -- Recent Empirical Trials -- THE CENTRALLY CONTROLLED APPROACH TO DEVFLOPMENT -- LATER SCHOOLS OF ECONOMICS -- CONCLUSIONS -- 5. Other Social Science Hypotheses on Development -- SOCIOLOGICAL HYPOTHESES -- The General Sociological Viewpoint -- Development Concepts -- Hypotheses -- Practical Approaches -- SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL HYPOTHESES -- Mass Transformation of Personality -- ANTHROPOLOGICAL HYPOTHESES -- Orientation -- POLITICAL HYPOTHESES -- CONCLUSIONS -- PART THREE NEW PERSPECTIVES -- 6. Historical Trends in Production -- PHASE I: BASIC PRODUCTION -- General Agriculture - Its Growth Potential -- Impediments to the Development of General Agriculture -- Textile Production -- Construction -- PHASE II: FACTORY PRODUCTION -- PHASE III: ELABORATIVE PRODUCTION -- PHASE IV: FULL AUTOMATION -- 7. Socio-technics: A New Set of Hypotheses for Development.

SPECIFIC STAGES OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESSION -- IDENTIFYING THE 'CHANGE-AGENT' -- TECHNIQUES, TOOLS, AND MACHINES -- ROLE-PLAYING INTERACTION BETWEEN MAN AND MACHINE -- SUMMARY -- 8. Practical Approaches in Development Planning -- GENERAL PRINCIPLES - TABOOS AND IMPERATIVES -- Taboos -- Imperatives -- ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION -- Domestic Maintenance Programming -- BASIS OF PROGRAMMING FOR TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT -- Resources Evaluation -- Planning Mechanization for the Traditional Type of Society -- Planning Mechanization for the Transitional Type of Society -- Indoctrination and Skills Development -- ASSISTANCE FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES -- Ecumenical Aid -- Western Bloc Aid -- Communist Bloc Aid -- Evaluation of Aid -- PART FOUR ON THE HORIZON -- 9. Socio-technics and Production Control -- DEFINING EFFICIENCY -- An Economic Model of Efficiency -- A Technological Model of Efficiency -- SOCIETAL VIEWPOINTS -- COMPETITION AND PRODUCTIVITY -- OWNERSHIP AND PRODUCTIVITY -- General Characteristics -- Managerial Ownership -- Ownership by Proxy -- MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY -- Administrative Management -- Engineering Management -- EXCHANGE MEDIA AND PRODUCTIVITY -- Money and the Market -- Credit -- MEASURING THE TREND TOWARD AUTOMATION -- 10. Socio-technics and Commodity Management -- DISTRIBUTION -- Inequalities in Distribution -- The Sales Function -- The Sales Function Re-examined -- Advertising -- CONSUMPTION -- Waste, Repair, and Salvage -- Changing Patterns -- Relation to Production -- CONCLUSIONS -- Index.