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Materials for an exploratory Theory of the Network Society - Manuel Castells

This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theor y of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identiŽ...
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Information Technology, Globalization and Social Development - Manuel Castells

For the first time in history the entire planet is capitalist. Even the few remaining command economies are surviving or developing through their linkages to global, capitalist markets. Yet this is...
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Immigrant workers and class struggles in advanced capitalism - the Western European experience - Man

We shall start by recalling the fundamental structural tendencies of monopoly capitalism in Western Europe in order to locate the phenomenon of immigration within this specific social and economic ...
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Global governance and global politics - Manuel Castells

Social movements and grassroots organizations, as well as a variety of social actors, are trying to fill the current void of representation and legitimate policy making. A global civil society is i...
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European unification in the era of the Network State - Manuel Castells

The unification of Europe is significant as a source of institutional innovation that may yield some answers to the crisis of the nation-state. This is because, around the process of formation of t...
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European cities, the informational society, and the global economy - Manuel Castells

An old axiom in urban sociology considers space as a reflection of society. Yet life, and cities, are always too complex to be captured in axioms. Thus the close relationship between space and soci...
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Economics - Manuel Castells

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science http://ann.sagepub.com Economics MANUEL CASTELLS The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 1985; 481; 201...
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Labour markets and employment practices in the age of flexibility - a case study of Silicon Valley

A case study of Silicon Valley labour markets, with a shift from permanent to individualized, flexible employment, where individual "flexible" workers move between workplaces filling particular pos...
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The Message is the Medium - an interview with Manuel Castells

I have been obsessed, and still am, with the same things from the very beginning of my career: social change and power relations. I always look first at the power relations that exist and second at...
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The New Dependency - Technological Change and Socioeconomic Restructuring in Latin America - Castell

This article analyzes the implications for the Latin American societies of the ongoing restructuring of the world economy, which is driven by the accelerated application of science and technology t...
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Russian Federalism and Siberian Regionalism, 1990-2000 - Castells and Kiselyova

What are the likely outcomes of the current Russian period of transition? What can an overall analysis of the various forces and levels of action contribute to our understanding of the prospects fo...
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Switching power - Rupert Murdoch and the global business of media politics - a sociological analysis

This article proposes a hypothesis on the nature of power in the network society, the social structure of the Information Age. It argues that the ability to control connection points between differ...
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Urban sustainability in the information age - Manuel Castells

What is sustainability? A city or ecosystem, or complex structure of any kind, is sustainable if its conditions of production do not destroy over time the conditions of its reproduction. It’s a sim...
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Urban renewal and social conflict in Paris - Manuel Castells

Urban problems are increasingly becoming a political issue as the socialization of the means of production is accompanied by the increasing socialization of the means of consumption or, if one pref...
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The new Public Sphere - global civil society, communication networks, and global governance - Manuel

The public sphere is the space of communication of ideas and projects that emerge from society and are addressed to the decision makers in the institutions of society. The global civil society is t...
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The net and the self - working notes for a critical theory of the informational society - Manuel Cas

A process of structural transformation is underway in most societies. It stems from the combined impact of a major technological revolution based around information technologies, the emergence of a...
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The Interaction between Information and Communication Technologies and the Network Society - Manuel

Societies evolve and are transformed through a complex interaction of cultural, economic, political, and technological factors. In any given society, the available range of technological processes ...
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The Cultural Crisis of Engineering in the Information Age - Manuel Castells

The culture of engineering was the soul of the technological saga of the industrial era. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was, perhaps, the world’s leading institution in the merger of sci...
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Paths and problems of the integration of post-communist Russia into the global economy - Manuel Cast

The transformation of Russia, and of its geopolitical sphere of influence, to a market economy is a fundamental process that will reshape the European economy, and the global economy as well, in th...
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Local and Global - cities in the network society - Manuel Castells

Over the past year or so, I have expanded my work in both areas of my current research. I have explored deeper the interaction between information technology and society, some outcomes of which hav...
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