ABSTRACT
In this final chapter dealing with the relation between industry and other subsystems of society we shall consider under the broad heading of ‘the community and the polity’ some of those aspects of society not covered in previous chapters. By ‘the community’ we mean a continuous geographical area in which mutually dependent groups act together to satisfy their needs through a common set of organisations and institutions (Anderson and Parker, 1964, p. 102). By ‘the polity’ we mean the sub-system of society oriented to the generation and allocation of power, the relation of the polity and government being conceived as approximately parallel to that of the economy and business.
