Industrialism and industrial man

The world is entering a new age-the age of total in dustrialization. Each generation lives at only one moment of history; but many members of our generation are trying to stand back and view the total panorama as it extends into the dim past and into the even dimmer future, as well as to assess the present.

An age of change is an age of speculation and of decisions. The African nationalist lawyer in prison in Southern Rhodesia, the young intellectual at the Imperial University in Tokyo, the economist working on the next five-year plan for India, the party intellectual in Belgrade, the aristocrat in Teheran, the military commander in Karachi, and thousands of others are seeking to divine the course of history and to make decisions in the light of some understanding of the time, the place, the forces, and the goals. The authors of this book share these interests and have ex plored them widely with many persons in this country and abroad.

We wish to speak in this volume to many persons of many persuasions and in a number of countries. In particular, we hope to speak to the intellectuals, the managers, the government offi cials and labor leaders who today or tomorrow will run their countries, now in the midst of great transformation. Originally we planned to speak on the subject of labor-management-state relations alone. But these relations exist in context; they are not discrete phenomena in society; they are, by and large, deter minate results rather than determining forces. To study these relations, accordingly, it is necessary to study their contexts. This has led us to examine the industrialization process, in several of its many forms, and to develop a view of industrialism itself.