Participatory Training versi PDF

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INTRODUCTION
The distinct features of post-industrialism, such as the trends toward rising numbers of white-collar workers, decreasing numbers of blue-collar workers, a greater emphasis on information goods rather than industrial manufacturing, the mobilization of science in production and management, and a consumer-oriented economy of affluence, have been studied and discussed since the mid-1950s. Price (1963) surveyed the growth of "big science" in the 1950s and demonstrated the exponential growth rate in the production of scientific knowledge. Dwight Eisenhower, at the end of his administration, warned the nation against the alliance of science with industry and the military (Eisenhower, 1971). Machlup (1962) first introduced the notion of a knowledge society by analyzing the growth of the knowledge producing industries in the U.S. economy, such as education, research and development, media and communications, and information machinery. Similarly, Bell (1974) observed that information and knowledge had become key resources in the post-industrial society, in much the same way that labor and capital are central resources of industrial societies.
by Sung Sil Lee Sohng, Ph.D.