# The Control Revolution

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***The Control Revolution*** is a book by [James Beniger](/source/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]

## Further reading

- John, Richard R. (1988). "Out of Control". *Isis*. **79** (4): 675–679. [doi:10.1086/354853](https://doi.org/10.1086/354853). [JSTOR 234755](https://www.jstor.org/stable/234755). [S2CID 61898465](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:61898465)
- Porter, Glenn (1987). "Socioeconomic Transformations: The Control Revolution.". *Science*. **236** (4804): 970–972. [Bibcode:1987Sci...236..970B](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987Sci...236..970B). [doi:10.1126/science.236.4804.970](https://doi.org/10.1126/science.236.4804.970). [PMID 17812753](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17812753)

## References

1. ["The Control Revolution Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. James R. Beniger"](https://archive.org/details/beniger-james-the-control-revolution)

1. ["Book review"](https://web.archive.org/web/20111023194224/http://www.thenewhumanities.net/books/Book%20Reviews59.html). *www.thenewhumanities.net*. Archived from [the original](http://www.thenewhumanities.net/books/Book%20Reviews59.html) on 23 October 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2022.

1. ["Beniger -- the Control Revolution"](http://faculty.babson.edu/krollag/org_site/org_theory/barley_articles/beniger_control.html)

1. ["The Control Revolution"](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/945995.The_Control_Revolution)

1. ["The Control Revolution — James R. Beniger"](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674169869&content=toc)

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