Has Canada Become a “Postindustrial” Society?

Has Canada become a “Postindustrial” Society?

Post- Industrialism

A concept applied for the characterization of the dynamics, structure, and possible future of advanced industrial societies is termed as postindustrial society. The idea of postindustrial society, like the more recent conceptions of postmodern and fundamentally modern society, tries to follow the considerable changes underwent by advanced industrial societies since the ending of World War II. Both pessimistic and optimistic scenarios are possessed by Post-industrial theory. Post-industrial society is characterized in Bell's pioneering work, by service employment dominance and the rise of professional-technical cadres, whose privileged social position is a function of their control of scientific knowledge and the means of information.

Models of Post- Industrialism

Three distinguished models of Daniel Bell, Hermfui Kabn and of Robert Heilbroner with a group at the Stanford Research Institute represent the three distinct works on post-industrial society. While some major changes in employment and in the relative significance of different economic sectors are projected in Bell's concept of post-industrial society, a linear continuance of past enhancements is essentially predicted by his version in material production and living standard. There are predictions of fundamental changes, in the other two models, in, or departures from, these past trends.

It was argued by Bell in 1973 that instead of in production of goods, similar to industrial capitalism, most workers would be engaged by postindustrial societies in the production and dissemination of knowledge. (Krahn et. al., 2010) Naisbitt reposed on analysis of Bell in 1982, concluding that information in the hands of the many are the new source of power instead of money in the hands of a few. Post-industrial society was seen by both of these authors as substantiating the decline of inequalities- class and income based and the development of greater democratic freedoms. The "disappearing middle" thesis ...