The Control Revolution

{{Short description|1986 book by James Beniger}}

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| name = The Control Revolution

| title_orig = The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society

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| caption = Cover of the first edition (paperback)

| author = James R. Beniger

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| country = United States

| language = English

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| genre = Non-fiction

| publisher = Harvard University Press

| release_date = 1986

| media_type = Print (Paperback)

| pages = 508 pp

| isbn = 9780674169869

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The Control Revolution is a book by 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.{{cite web |title=The Control Revolution Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. James R. Beniger |url=https://archive.org/details/beniger-james-the-control-revolution }}

{{cite web |url=http://www.thenewhumanities.net/books/Book%20Reviews59.html |title=Book review |website=www.thenewhumanities.net |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023194224/http://www.thenewhumanities.net/books/Book%20Reviews59.html |archive-date=23 October 2011 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite web | url=http://faculty.babson.edu/krollag/org_site/org_theory/barley_articles/beniger_control.html | title=Beniger -- the Control Revolution}}{{Cite web | url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/945995.The_Control_Revolution |title = The Control Revolution}} 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.{{Cite web | url=http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674169869&content=toc | title=The Control Revolution — James R. Beniger}}