Download or read book Hidden Technocrats written by Hansfried Kellner and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1970s many social scientists and critics noted the emergence of a new elite based on the "Knowledge Industry" and pitted against the old business-based middle class both politically and culturally. This work attempts to delineate the features of the New Class phenomenon and map its structural location in contemporary American and Western European societies.