Author: J. ZeitlinPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
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Flexibility in the `Age of Fordism`
Author: J. ZeitlinPost-Fordism
Author: Ash AminPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444399136
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book 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.
Fordism and Flexibility
Author: Roger BurrowsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349135267
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
During the 1980s there were profound changes in the labour process towards the 'flexible worker' and in the labour market towards a 'flexible workforce'. Three approaches to explain these changes provide the focus for this book: Marxist regulation theory; the notion of flexible specialisation associated with the 'new' institutional economics; and the model of the flexible firm derived from managerialist literature. In the book, the claims made by these approaches are investigated and their implications are examined in relation to emerging patterns of work in advanced societies.
Post Fordism
Author: Democracy and Prosperity
Author: Torben IversenPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210217
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
It is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined by global capitalism, in turn explaining rising inequality and mounting populism. This book, written by two of the world's leading political economists, argues this view is wrong: advanced democracies are resilient, and their enduring historical relationship with capitalism has been mutually beneficial. For all the chaos and upheaval over the past century--major wars, economic crises, massive social change, and technological revolutions--Torben Iversen and David Soskice show how democratic states continuously reinvent their economies through massive public investment in research and education, by imposing competitive product markets and cooperation in the workplace, and by securing macroeconomic discipline as the preconditions for innovation and the promotion of the advanced sectors of the economy. Critically, this investment has generated vast numbers of well-paying jobs for the middle classes and their children, focusing the aims of aspirational families, and in turn providing electoral support for parties. Gains at the top have also been shared with the middle (though not the bottom) through a large welfare state. Contrary to the prevailing wisdom on globalization, advanced capitalism is neither footloose nor unconstrained: it thrives under democracy precisely because it cannot subvert it. Populism, inequality, and poverty are indeed great scourges of our time, but these are failures of democracy and must be solved by democracy.
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography
Author: Trevor J. BarnesPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444362372
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography presents students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of the field, put together by a prestigious editorial team, with contributions from an international cast of prominent scholars. Offers a fully revised, expanded, and up-to-date overview, following the successful and highly regarded Companion to Economic Geography published by Blackwell a decade earlier, providing a comprehensive assessment of the field Takes a prospective as well as retrospective look at the field, reviewing recent developments, recurrent challenges, and emerging agendas Incorporates diverse perspectives (in terms of specialty, demography and geography) of up and coming scholars, going beyond a focus on Anglo-American research Encourages authors and researchers to engage with and contextualize their situated perspectives Explores areas of overlap, dialogues, and (potential) engagement between economic geography and cognate disciplines
Revisiting Gramsci’s Notebooks
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004417699
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
Revisiting Gramsci’s Notebooks offers a rich collection of studies addressing the thought of Antonio Gramsci, one of the most significant intellects of the twentieth century, from a global network of scholars confronting the actuality of our ‘great and terrible’ world.
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780080449111
Category : Human geography
Languages : en
Pages :
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Fordism, Flexibility, and Regional Productivity Growth
Author: Richard A. MatthewsPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815327363
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development
Author: Allen J. ScottPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134882742
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
The paradigm of mass production has given way to radically new forms of organizing industrial production based primarily on the need to foster continuous redesign of products and processes in the face of intensified competition. This change, which is designed to engender continuous adaptive learning in production systems, requires considerable organizational flexibility. The mass production systems constructed in the early post-war period foundered in the face of new forms of competition which put a premium on learning and flexibility.