Post-industrial society
Origin: Lat. post. Industrĭa, sociĕtas, -ātis
An economy that follows industrialization Such societies have an increasing service sector that replaces the manufacturing sector, and heavy emphasis on information technology. The sociologist Daniel Bell coined the term and defined a post-industrial society as one in which the majority of the labor force is not involved in the production of tangible goods and one in which knowledge, not the production of tangible goods, becomes the base of economic power.
Spanish: Sociedad post-industrial
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