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Title The Poverty of progress : changing ways of life in industrial societies / edited by Ian Miles, John Irvine with Monica Wemegah, and Dag Poleszynski
Edition First edition
Published Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1982

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Description xxiii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Introduction / John Irvine and Ian Miles -- Why the concern with ways of life? / Johan Galtung, Dag Polsezynski, and Monica Wemegah -- The 'abundant society' and world order / Steven Arnold and Denis Goulet -- The dominant way of life in Norway -- The dominant way of life in Switzerland / Monica Wemegah -- The dominant way of life in Britain / John Irvine and Ian Miles -- On ways of life in Poland / Andrzej SiciƄski -- Alternative ways of life in the Netherlands / Anneke Schipper-van Otterloo and Peter Ester -- Alternative ways of life in Denmark / Jens Falkentorp ... [et al.] -- From things to experiences / Hidetoshi Kato -- Another development for Europe in the 1980s / Richard Jolly -- Establishing alternative ways of life / Ian Miles and John Irvine
Notes "Selected proceedings of two international conferences on 'alternative ways of life', organized by the Goals, Processes, and Indicators of Development Project of the United Nations University and by the Society for International Development, held in Cartigny, Switzerland, 1978, and Trappeto, Sicily, 1979."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Quality of life -- Congresses.
Social change -- Congresses.
Social history -- 1970- -- Congresses.
Social Change.
Genre/Form Congress.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Irvine, John, 1951-
Miles, Ian.
Society for International Development.
United Nations University.
LC no. 81017779
ISBN 008027935X (paperback)
0080289061