1 Introduction 2 The Technocrats' Utopia: Plans for an Information Society 3 The Plans in Action: Information Society Policies in Japan 4 The Information Society: Beyond Ideology 5 Information Capitalism: an Alternative Analysis of the Information Society 6 Employment and Unemployment in Japan's Information Society 7 Informisation' at Work: the Quality of Work in the Information Society 8 More Intellectual Work? The Structure of Employment in the Information Society 9 Mapping the Future: Information Technology, Centralisation and Decentralisation 10 Organised Labour and Information Capitalism 11 Towards an Alternative Utopia Appendix Categorisation of the Occupational