Huntington, Samuel P. "Postindustrial Politics: How Benign Will It Be?" Comparative Politics v. 6 n. 2 (1974): 163-191.

The concept of postindustrial society was advanced in the early 1960s by Daniel Bell as a model of society comparable to, but significantly different from, models of industrial and agrarian society. In the following decade, the concept was elaborated by Bell, reformulated by others, and relabeled by some. While individual postindustrial society theorists stress different aspects of the concept, they would generally agree on the following as central elements distinguishing postindustrial from industrial and agrarian society:

a. the economic predominance of the service sector in contract to the industrial and agricultural sectors;

b. the predominance in the labor force of white-collar rather than blue-collar workers, and, particularly, the widespread and critical role in the economy of professional, technical, and managerial workers…

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