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The Poverty of progress : changing ways of life in industrial societies

Title
  1. The Poverty of progress : changing ways of life in industrial societies / edited by Ian Miles, John Irvine with Monica Wemegah, and Dag Poleszynski.
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  1. Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1982.

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Additional authors
  1. Miles, Ian.
  2. Irvine, John, 1951-
  3. United Nations University.
  4. Society for International Development.
Description
  1. xxiii, 344 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
  1. "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 Cartigny, Switzerland, 1978, and Trappeto, Sicily, 1979."
Subject
  1. Since 1970
  2. Social history > 1970- > Congresses
  3. Quality of life > Congresses
  4. Social change > Congresses
  5. Quality of life
  6. Social change
  7. Social history
  8. Lebensqualität
  9. Kongress
  10. Mudanca Social
  11. Poverty > Congresses
  12. Kongress
  13. SOCIAL CHANGE
  14. QUALITY OF LIFE
  15. SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS
  16. STATISTICAL DATA
  17. UNITED STATES
  18. NORWAY
  19. SWITZERLAND
  20. UNITED KINGDOM
  21. POLAND
  22. NETHERLANDS
  23. DENMARK
  24. JAPAN
  25. DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
  26. SOCIAL RESEARCH
  27. ECONOMIC RESEARCH
  28. DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES
  29. SOCIAL HISTORY
Genre/Form
  1. Conference papers and proceedings.
  2. Actes de congrès.
Contents
  1. 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 Switzerland / Monica Wemegah -- The dominant way of life in Britain / John Irvine and Ian Miles -- On ways of life in Poland / Andrzej Siciński -- 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. "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 Cartigny, Switzerland, 1978, and Trappeto, Sicily, 1979."
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.