TY - BOOK TI - The Poverty of progress: changing ways of life in industrial societies SN - 008027935X (pbk.) AV - HN3 .P68 1982 PY - 1982///. CY - Oxford, New York PB - Pergamon Press KW - Quality of life KW - Congresses KW - Social change KW - Social history KW - 1970- KW - Changement social KW - Congr?es KW - Histoire sociale KW - Qualitâe de la vie KW - Mudanca Social KW - larpcal KW - DENMARK KW - unbist KW - DEVELOPED COUNTRIES KW - DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES KW - ECONOMIC RESEARCH KW - JAPAN KW - Kongress KW - swd KW - Lebensqualitèat KW - NETHERLANDS KW - NORWAY KW - POLAND KW - QUALITY OF LIFE KW - SOCIAL CHANGE KW - SOCIAL HISTORY KW - SOCIAL RESEARCH KW - SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS KW - STATISTICAL DATA KW - SWITZERLAND KW - UNITED KINGDOM KW - UNITED STATES N1 - "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; Distribution: General ER -