The Control Revolution

The Control Revolution
Cover of the first edition (paperback)
AuthorJames R. Beniger
Original titleThe Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherHarvard University Press
Publication date
1986
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages508 pp
ISBN9780674169869

The Control Revolution is a book by James Beniger that explains the origins of the information society in part from the need to manage and control the production of an industrial society.[1] [2][3][4] 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.[5]