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title: "4 Postindustrial Age Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-francois-lyotard/our-working-hypothesis-is-that-the-status-of-knowledge-is-altered-as/)

[Jean-Francois Lyotard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-francois-lyotard/)

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> [“In the agricultural age, women conceived younger and had many more children because children were economic assets as workers on the farm.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-lehmann-haupt/in-the-agricultural-age-women-conceived-younger-and-had-many-more/)

[Rachel Lehmann-Haupt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-lehmann-haupt/)

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> [In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-schiller/in-the-postindustrial-age-labor-is-seen-as-essentially-uninvolved-in/)

[Herbert Schiller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-schiller/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/148/herbert-schiller-27923_age_in-the-postindustrial-age-labor-is-seen_792280.jpg)

> [“This is an existential crisis rooted not only in race—which the corner has slowly transcended—but in the unresolved disaster of the American…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-simon/this-is-an-existential-crisis-rooted-not-only-in-race-which-the/)

[David Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-simon/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/316/david-simon-3189_existential-crisis_this-is-an-existential-crisis-rooted-not_1499258.png)

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