''The Control Revolution'' is a book by
James Beniger
James Ralph Beniger (December 16, 1946Morgen Witzel (2005) ''Encyclopedia of History of American Management.'' p. 30 – April 12, 2010) was an American historian and sociologist and Professor of Communications and Sociology at the Annenberg Sch ...
that explains the origins of the information society in part from the need to manage and control the production of an industrial society.
The book received the Association of American Publishers Award for the Most Outstanding Book in the Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award. Beniger was a professor at the University of Southern California.
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1989 non-fiction books
Information society
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