Beck Ulrich. The Risk Society. (Sage, 1992)

"What follows is written in the mode of an ealry 19th century observer on the lookout for the contours pf the as yet unknown industrial age emerging from behind the facade of fading feudal agrarianism." p9

"modernity beyond its classical industrial design" p10

"industrial society exits the stage of world history on the tip toes of normality." p11

new social movements are an expression of reflexive modernisation beyond the outlines of industrial society.

"risks of modernisation sooner or later also strike those who produce or profit from them. They contain a boomerang effect which breaks open the pattern of class and national society." p23

socially recognised costs contain political explosives.

"what was untill now considered unpolitical becomes political...suddenly the public extend their rule into the private sphere of plant management." p29

"there is no expert on risk" p29