Ken Ducatel is currently seconded to the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Sevilla, Spain, from his post as senior lecturer in the Management of New Technology at PREST, the University of Manchester, UK. Juliet Webster is a research fellow in the employment research unit at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Werner Herrmann is unit head in the directorate general for education and culture of the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, and visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

• Chapter 1 Information Infrastructures or Societies?Part 2 Part I: Space, Economy, and the Global Information SocietyChapter 3 Regional Development in the Information SocietyChapter 4 The Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Large Firms: Impacts and Policy IssuesChapter 5 Small Firms in Europe's Developing Information SocietyPart 6 Part II: Work and the European Information SocietyChapter 7 New Organizational Forms in the Information SocietyChapter 8 Today's Second Sex and Tomorrow's First? Women and Work in the European Information SocietyChapter 9 Toward the Learning Labor MarketPart 10 Part III: Life in the Information SocietyChapter 11 Health and the Information SocietyChapter 12 Information and Communication Technologies in Distance and Lifelong LearningChapter 13 Information and Communication Technologies and Everyday Life: Individual and Social DimensionsChapter 14 Computer-Aided Democracy: The Effects of Information and Communication Technologies on DemocracyPart 15 References

An important collection that demonstrates why European scholars have taken a leading role in the debate about the social dimensions of the revolution in information and communication technologies. Looking beyond the technology of the day, the contributions address enduring issues of significance to policy and practice in Europe and the world.