Industrial+Society

Prime innovative technology at the core development was the steam engine, main function was to substitute and amplify the physical layout of man. The steam engine rapidly increases the material productive power and made possible fast transportation of goods. Leading industries were machinery and chemicals. Goal is to become Gross National Welfare society.

-capitalist and post capitalist time period -period of constraints and limits to freedom and democracy abundance -factories -In [|sociology], **//industrial society//** refers to a society with a [|modern] societal structure. Such a structure developed in the west in the period of time following the [|industrial revolution]. [|Pre-modern] or pre-industrial societies are also called [|agrarian societies]. Industrial societies are generally [|mass societies]. - Old versus New Economy

–Technology (Machines amplified) –Products (Mass production of goods, transportation of goods) –Leading industries (Factory is the production contre) –Labour market (Physical labour) –Nature of work (High mass consumption, manufacturing, motorization)
 * •Industrial**

–Technology (Computer) –Products (Expansion of information, information networks and data banks) –Leading industries (Global work) –Labour market (Technology amplified mental labour) –Nature of work (High mass knowledge creation)
 * •Post Industrial**