Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
340
Language
English
Published
Jan 1, 1961
Publisher
New York: David McKay Company, Inc. 1961
ISBN-10
0582108500
ISBN-13
9780582108509
Description
A prophetic look at a nightmare future consumer society that has become our present in which production is predicated on the instant obsolescence of the goods made - creating a society in which pride in solid craftmanship has been replaced by one with a trash ethic in which everything is disposable and replaceable. A society in which wastefulness with the limited resources and raw materials of planet Earth is the motor of society - forestalling for a limited time the inevitable day of reckoning...