Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1. Late Capitalism, Fordism, Post- Fordism -- Notes -- 1. Postmodernism and Late Capitalism -- Periodisation and the Break -- Late Capitalism: A New Stage of Capital? -- Limits to Late Capitalism -- Regimes of Accumulation and Modes of Regulation: Fordism -- Consumption and the Wage Relation -- Crises of Accumulation: Post- Fordism -- Notes -- 2. Class and Consensus, Ideology and Technology -- Fordism s Progressive Inheritance -- Fordism, Professionalism, Post- Fordism -- Notes -- Part 2. Putting 'IT' to Work: : Post- Fordism, Information Technology and the Eclipse of Production -- 3. Making 'IT': The Soul of a New Machine -- Informating the Crisis -- Computers, Communications, Community -- Space, Time and the Computer -- Technology and the Representation of Power -- The Character of Fordism: From Engineer to Manager -- The Character of Post- Fordism: From Work Ethic to Work Enclave -- Character and Class: The Production of Character and the Character of Production -- The Eclipse of Production -- Notes -- 4. Faking 'IT': True Stories -- Notes -- 5. Playing With 'IT': Microserfs -- Notes -- Part 3. Impotence and Omnipotence: The Cybernetic Discourse of Capitalism -- 6. Cybernetics, Systems Theory and the End of Ideology -- Notes -- 7. Imaginary Resolutions: William Gibson's Cyberspace Trilogy -- Cyberspace, Totality, Mode of Production -- Science Fiction as Class Discourse -- Capital and Class in an Age of Cybernetic Simulation -- Professionals in Space -- Unimaginable Resolutions? -- Notes -- 8. Artificial Intelligence and Class Consciousness: Blade Runner -- Notes -- Part 4. Capital, Class, Cosmopolitanism -- 9. Fordism, Post-Fordism and the Production of World Space -- Notes -- 10. National Allegory and the Romance of Underdevelopment: The Names -- Allegories of Imperial Crisis.

Nature, History and the Space of Uneven Development -- Class Discourse and the New Cosmopolitanism -- Professionals and Primal Mediation -- Cognitive Mapping and Uneven Development -- Notes -- 11. Blindness and Insight in the World System: Until the End of the World -- Notes -- Conclusion Questioning Fordism and Post-Fordism -- Notes -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Conclusion -- Index -- Abercrombie, Nicholas, 145 -- Adorno, Theodor, 224 -- Affluent Society, The [Galbraith] 35 -- Aglietta, Michel -- 20 -- 25 -- 28 -- 40 -- 44 -- 58 -- 115 -- Ahmad, Aijaz 166 -- Alice in the Cities [film] 228 -- Althusser, Louis -- 214 -- 224 -- American Dream, An [Mailer] 225 -- American Revolution -- 153 -- 225 -- American social character -- 57-67 -- 70 -- 100-1 -- 218 -- Anderson, Perry 2 -- Apple [corporation] -- 60 -- 220 -- Aronowitz, Stanley -- 55 -- 62 -- 216 -- Arrighi, Giovanni 210 -- Artificial intelligence -- 9 -- 45 -- 105 -- 118 -- 148-61 -- 223 -- Ashby, W. Ross -- 106-7 -- 223 -- Automation -- 4 -- 68 -- 109-10 -- 113-18 -- Baby-boomers -- 72 -- 88-91 -- 95 -- Ballard, J. G. 224 -- Balsamo, Anne 226 -- Baran, Paul 133-4 -- Barthes, Roland 70 -- Bateson, Gregory -- 122 -- 223 -- Baudrillard, Jean -- 2 -- 15 -- 52 -- 105 -- 116-17 -- 151 -- Beet Queen, The [Erdrich] 226 -- Bell, Daniel -- 2 -- 30 -- 32 -- 34 -- 40 -- 62 -- 70 -- Bellah, Robert -- 34 -- 46-7 -- 57 -- 59-62 -- 78-81 -- Bellamy, Edward 45 -- Beloved [Morrison] 226 -- Benjamin, Walter 152 -- Berger, Albert 224 -- Berle, Adolph -- 31 -- 32 -- 119 -- 133 -- 223 -- Berman, Marshall -- 168 -- 216 -- Bertalanffy, Ludwig von -- 107 -- 122 -- 223 -- Big Chill, The [film] 222 -- Big Sleep, The [film] 226 -- Biskind, Peter 85 -- Blade Runner [film] -- 9.

118 -- 138 -- 148-61 -- 167 -- 201 -- Blake, William -- 153 -- 225 -- Bledstein, Burton -- 34 -- 205 -- 206 -- 208 -- Block, Fred 229 -- Boorstin, Daniel 216 -- Brand, Stewart 220 -- Braudel, Fernand -- 168 -- 172 -- Braverman, Harry -- 58-9 -- 66 -- 154 -- 219 -- 220 -- 224 -- Brenner, Robert 222 -- Bretton Woods monetary agreement -- 23 -- 173 -- 174 -- 176 -- Bruno, Giuliana 151 -- Bukharin, Mikhail 168-9 -- Burnham, James 220 -- Burning Chrome [Gibson] 123-4 -- Byrne, David -- 47 -- 71 -- 72-87 -- Callinicos, Alex 89 -- Capital-labour accord -- 3 -- 6 -- 27 -- 30 -- 173 -- 175 -- Carey, James -- 39 -- 78 -- Carpenter's Gothic [Gaddis] -- 181 -- 226 -- Castells, Manuel -- 20 -- 25 -- 210 -- 217 -- Chandler, Alfred D. -- 44 -- 165 -- 166 -- 177 -- Chaplin, Charlie 45 -- Charlie's Angels [TV show] 98 -- Chase-Dunn, Christopher -- 174 -- 176 -- Chinatown [film] 225 -- City of Quartz [Davis] 15 -- Clark, Gordon L. 87 -- Class -- 3-4 -- 6 -- 9 -- 22 -- 26 -- 55 -- 113 -- in Blade Runner, 148-61 -- in Gibson's cyberspace trilogy, 47 -- in Microserfs, 96 -- in The Names, 192-204 -- in True Stories, 82-7 -- Clinton, Bill 46 -- Club of Rome 107 -- Cobb, Jonathan -- 82 -- 84-6 -- 152 -- Cold War -- 7 -- 111 -- 127 -- 220 -- 223 -- Coming of Postindustrial Society, The [Bell] 229 -- Communication as Culture [Carey] 39 -- Communitarianism -- 46 -- 62 -- 99 -- 219 -- Community -- 46-9 -- 60-63 -- 70 -- 75-81 -- 87 -- Conrad, Joseph -- 227 -- 228 -- Consensus -- 30-31 -- 41 -- 84 -- 130-31 -- 218 -- Consumerism -- 19-20 -- 26 -- 52 -- 97 -- 117 -- 166 -- Consumption -- 2 -- 6-7 -- 18 -- 20 -- 21 -- 25-7 -- 55 -- Corporations -- 19 -- 21 -- 29 -- 44-6 -- 59 -- 69-70 -- Counterculture -- 64 -- 220 -- 223 -- 229 -- Coup, The [Updike] 226 -- Coupland, Douglas -- 42 -- 47 -- 62 -- 70-1 -- 88-102 -- Crisis -- 3 -- 18-25 -- 27-8 -- 42-3 -- 175.

Croly, Herbert 149 -- Crying of Lot 49, The [Pynchon] 51-4 -- Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, The [Bell] 229 -- Culture of Professionalism, The [Bledstein] 205 -- Cybernetics -- 9 -- 18 -- 45 -- 105-18 -- 129 -- 146 -- Cybernetics [Wiener] -- 105 -- 148 -- Cyberpunk -- 124-6 -- 224 -- 225 -- Cyberspace 123-47 -- cyberspace trilogy 132-4 -- Cyberspace trilogy [Gibson] -- 118 -- 123 -- 131-47 -- 148-9 -- 152 -- Cyborg -- 26 -- 107 -- 118 -- 149-61 -- 226 -- Data General [corporation] 42-71 -- Davidow, William H. -- 88 -- 100 -- Davis, Mike -- 2 -- 14-15 -- 19 -- 21 -- 23 -- 28 -- 34 -- Dawley, Alan 84-5 -- Deindustrialisation 69-70 -- Deleuze, Gilles -- 171 -- 219 -- DeLillo, Don -- 178 -- 179-204 -- 205 -- 227 -- 228 -- Democracy [Didion] -- 181-2 -- 226 -- 227 -- Dennett, Daniel 223 -- Derrida, Jacques -- 200 -- 228 -- Design for a Brain [Ashby] 106 -- Deskilling 57-8 -- Dick, Philip K. 222 -- Didion, Joan -- 83 -- 181-2 -- 226 -- Doctorow, E. L. -- 181 -- 226 -- 227 -- Edwards, Richard -- 27 -- 216 -- Ehrenreich, Barbara -- 32-4 -- 35 -- 59 -- 65-6 -- 83 -- 85 -- Ehrenreich, John -- 32-4 -- 59 -- 65-6 -- 83 -- 88-9 -- 156 -- Eisenhower, Dwight D. 110 -- End of History?, The [Fukuyama] 117-18 -- End-of-ideology -- 7 -- 31 -- 96 -- 112-18 -- 217 -- Engels, Frederick -- 167-8 -- 202 -- Engineers and the Price System [Veblen] -- 63 -- 218 -- English, Deirdre 157-8 -- Erdrich, Louise 226 -- ET 225 -- Ewen, Stuart -- 56 -- 216 -- Fanon, Frantz -- 179 -- 196 -- Fear of Falling [Ehrenreich] -- 35 -- 159 -- Featherstone, Mike 166 -- First World War 171 -- Fiskadoro [Johnson] 226 -- Fitting, Peter 124 -- Fitzgerald, F. Scott 225 -- Flexible accumulation 41-2 -- Ford Foundation 109 -- Ford, Henry -- 24 -- 26 -- 57 -- 212 -- 225-6 -- Fordism -- 3-10 -- 24-8 -- 29-36 -- 49 -- 72-3 -- and American social character, 57-60.

and American social character, 64-7 -- and American social character, 76 -- and baby-boom, 88-90 -- and globalisation, 165-78 -- and systems theory, 114 -- Forrester, Jay 107 -- Fortune [magazine] -- 30 -- 31 -- Foster, Hal 215 -- Foucault, Michel -- 175-6 -- 219 -- Fox, Richard W. -- 79-80 -- 86 -- 216 -- Fragments of a Hologram Rose [Gibson] -- Fragments of a Hologram Rose [Gibson], 23 -- Fragments of a Hologram Rose [Gibson], 125 -- Fragments of a Hologram Rose [Gibson], 149 -- Frankfurt School 26 -- Fukuyama, Francis -- 7 -- 117-18 -- 119 -- Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class, The [Gouldner] 119 -- Gaddis, William -- 181 -- 226 -- Galbraith, J. K. -- 35 -- 114 -- 145 -- 159 -- Gates, Bill -- 49 -- 60 -- 94-5 -- Geertz, Clifford -- 192-3 -- 227 -- Gender -- 47 -- 98 -- 222 -- in Blade Runner, 9 -- in Gibson's cyberspace trilogy, 142-3 -- in Gibson's cyberspace trilogy, 225 -- General Electric [corporation] 110 -- General Motors [corporation] -- 30 -- 217 -- Generation X -- 90-2 -- 97-9 -- Generation X [Coupland] 91-2 -- Gibson, William -- 9 -- 57 -- 71 -- 93 -- 118 -- 119-47 -- Giddens, Anthony 7 -- Gingrich, Newt 73 -- Gitlin, Todd 222 -- Glass, Fred 161 -- Global village 49 -- Globalisation -- 7-8 -- 19 -- 69-70 -- 118 -- 165-78 -- Going After Cacciato [O'Brien] 226 -- Goldmann, Lucien 224 -- Good Society, The [Bellah] -- 133 -- 219 -- Gordon, David -- 27 -- 175 -- Gorz, Andre 229 -- Gouldner, Alvin -- 34 -- 112 -- 119 -- 129 -- 137 -- 141 -- Gramsci, Antonio -- 24-5 -- 29 -- 58 -- 212 -- 213 -- 217 -- Grand narrative -- 7 -- 46 -- 77 -- 214 -- 219 -- Grateful Dead, The 220 -- Great Depression -- 3 -- 7 -- 18 -- 112 -- Green movement 161 -- Grossberg, Lawrence 216 -- Guattari, Felix -- 171 -- 219 -- Habermas, Jürgen 41 -- Habits of the Heart [Bellah] -- 34 -- 46 -- 219 -- Hall, Stuart -- 2 -- 5 -- Halliday, Fred 226.

Haraway, Donna.