Post-Fordism
A Reader
Published on 20. July 2011
448 pages
978-1-4443-9913-4 (ISBN)
Description
Part analysis of contemporary change and part vision of the future, post-Fordism lends its name to a set of challenging, essential and controversial debates over the nature of capitalism's newest age. This book provides a superb introduction to these debates and their far-reaching implications, and includes key texts by post-Fordism's major theorists and commentators.
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"Those tempted to venture onto this contested terrain would be welladvised to choose their guidebook carefully and at present thereare few which do the job better that Ash Amin's edited collection.The book's key virtue, it seems to me, is that it does not pursue aparticular agenda in relation to the debate, but draws itscontributions from across the spectrum of opinion." J. H. Love,Regional Studies "If this particular Reader were a CD then it would no doubt becalled 'Now That's What I Call Post-Fordism' or perhaps 'The BestBook on Post-Fordism... Ever!'." Andrew Leyshon, University ofBristolMore details
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Ash Amin works in the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. He is the editor, most recently, of Globalisation, Institutions and Regional Development in Europe (with Nigel Thrift).
Content
List of Contributors.
Acknowledgements.
1. Post-Fordism: Models, Fantasies and Phantoms of Transition:Ash Amin (University of Newcastle).
Part I: New Macroeconomic Designs:.
2. Puzzling out the Post-Fordist Debate: Technology, Markets andInstitutions: Mark Elam (Linkoping University).
3. The Crisis of Fordism and the Dimensions of a 'Post-Fordist'Regional and Urban Structure: Josef Esser (Goethe University,Germany) and Joachim Hirsch (Goethe University, Germany).
Part II: New Sociologies and Geographies of IndustrialOrganisation: .
4. Flexible Specialisation and the Re-emergence of RegionalEconomies: Charles F. Sabel (MIT, USA).
5. A New Paradigm of Work Organization and Technology: JohnTomaney (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne).
6. The Transition to Flexible Specialization in the US FilmIndustry: External Economies, the Division of Labour and theCrossing of Industrial Divides: Michael Storper (University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles, USA).
7. Competing Structural and Institutional Influences on theGeography of Production in Europe: Ash Amin (University ofNewcastle-upon-Tyne) and Anders Malmberg (Uppsala University,Sweden).
Part III: Policy and Politics Beyond Fordism:.
8. Post-Fordism and the State: Bob Jessop (LancasterUniversity).
9. Searching for a New Institutional Fix: TheAfter-Fordist crisis and Global-local Disorder: Jamie Peck(Manchester University) and Adam Tickel (Leeds University).
10. Post-Fordist City Politics: Margit Mayer (Free University ofBerlin, Germany).
11. Post-Fordism and Democracy: Alain Lipietz (CEPREMAP, Paris,France).
Part IV: Post-Fordist City Lives and Lifestyles:.
12. Flexible Accumulation through Urbanization: Reflections on'Post-Modernism' in the American City: David Harvey (Johns HopkinsUniversity).
13. City Cultures and Postmodern Lifestyles: Mike Featherstone(Teeside University).
14. The Fortress City: Privatized Spaces, Consumer Citizenship:Susan Christopherson (Cornell University, USA).
Index.
