Originally published: 2004. With a new pref.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [466]-511) and index.

The information technology revolution -- The new economy : informationalism, globalization, networking -- The network enterprise : the culture, institutions, and organizations of the informational economy -- The transformation of work and employment : networkers, jobless, and flex-timers -- The culture of real virtuality : the integration of electronic communication, the end of the mass audience, and the rise of interactive networks -- The space of flows -- The edge of forever : timeless time -- The crisis of industrial statism and the collapse of the soviet union -- The rise of the fourth world : informational captalism, poverty, and social exclusion -- The perverse connection : the global criminal economy -- Development and crisis in the asian pacific : globalization and the state -- The unification of europe : globalization, identity, and the network state.