The Poverty of progress changing ways of life in industrial societies
edited by Ian Miles, John Irvine with Monica Wemegah, and Dag Poleszynski.
- 1st ed.
- Oxford ; New York Pergamon Press 1982.
- xxiii, 344 p. ill. 22 cm.
"Selected proceedings of two international conferences on 'alternative ways of life', organized by the Goals, Processes, and Indicators of Development Project of the United Nations University and by the Society for International Development, held in C artigny, Switzerland, 1978, and Trappeto, Sicily, 1979."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / John Irvine and Ian Miles -- Why the concern with ways of life? / Johan Galtung, Dag Polsezynski, and Monica Wemegah -- The 'abundant society' and world order / Steven Arnold and Denis Goulet -- The dominant way of life in Norway -- The dominant way of life in Switzerland / Monica Wemegah -- The dominant way of life in Britain / John Irvine and Ian Miles -- On ways of life in Poland / Andrzej Siciânski -- Alternative ways of life in the Netherlands / Anneke Schipper-van Otterloo and Peter Ester -- Alternative ways of life in Denmark / Jens Falkentorp ... [et al.] -- From things to experiences / Hidetoshi Kato -- Another development for Europe in the 1980s / Richard Jolly -- Establishing alternative ways of life / Ian Miles and John Irvine.
Quality of life--Congresses. Social change--Congresses. Social history--1970---Congresses. Changement social--Congr?es. Histoire sociale--1970---Congr?es. Qualitâe de la vie--Congr?es. Mudanca Social. DENMARK. DEVELOPED COUNTRIES. DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES. ECONOMIC RESEARCH. JAPAN. Kongress Lebensqualitèat NETHERLANDS. NORWAY. POLAND. QUALITY OF LIFE. SOCIAL CHANGE. SOCIAL HISTORY. SOCIAL RESEARCH. SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS. STATISTICAL DATA. SWITZERLAND. UNITED KINGDOM. UNITED STATES.