Fordism and Flexibility
Divisions and Change
Published on 30. March 1992
Book
Hardback
218 pages
978-0-333-56535-3 (ISBN)
Description
The profound changes in the labour market during the 1980s are examined in this book in relation to the ideas of flexible specialization and the "flexible firm" and Marxist regulation theory, supplemented by fresh empirical evidence concerning changes in the labour process.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
292 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-56535-3 (9780333565353)
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06/1994
Palgrave Macmillan
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Content
Introduction: Fordism, Post-Fordism and Economic Flexibility - Roger Burrows, Nigel Gilbert & Anna Pollert. PART 1 HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL CRITIQUES: What in the F...'s Name is Fordism - Simon Clarke; Where's the Value in "Post-Fordism"? - Jamie Gough. PART 2 LOCALITY STUDIES: Labour Market Change and the Organization of Work - Al Rainnie & David Kraithnian; Flexibility in Britain during the 1980s: Recent Empirical Evidence - Roger Penn. PART 3 INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDIES: Inflexible Flexibility: A Case Study of Modularization - Tony Elger & Peter Fairbrother; Management Control and a New Regime of Subordination: Post-Fordism and the Local Economy Philip Garrahan & Paul Stewart; Gender, Technology and Flexibility in the UK Mail Order Industry - Steven Leman. PART 4 NEW PATTERNS OF EMPLOYMENT: Older Worker Employment: Change and Continuity in the 1980s - Bernard Casey & Frank Laczko; Structure and Sentiment: Family and Rationality Within the Capitalist Enterprise - Ian Roberts & Glyn Holroyd; Over the Threshhold? Public and Private Choices in New Information Technology Homeworking - Steve Smith & James Anderson.