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Author:   Jessop
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Volume:   No. 4
Dimensions:   Width: 17.60cm , Height: 4.40cm , Length: 24.90cm
Weight:   1.050kg
ISBN:  

9781840646542

ISBN 10:   1840646543
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   25 April 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part 1 North America: the reconstruction of a social structure of accumulation in the United States, Victor D. Lippit; representations in crisis - the roots of Canada's permeable Fordism, Jane Jenson. Part 2 Europe: semiperipheral Fordism in southern Europe - the national and international context of socialist-led governments in Spain, Portugal and Greece, in historical perspective, Otto Holman; constructing the post-Fordist state? The politics of labour market flexibility in Spain, Miguel Martinez Lucio and Paul Blyton; conservative regimes and the transition to post-Fordism - the cases of Great Britain and West Germany, Bob Jessop; local modes of social regulation? Regulation theory, Thatcherism and uneven development, Jamie A. Peck and Adam Tickell; the price of diversity - rival concepts of control as a barrier to an EU industrial strategy, Winfried Ruigrok and Rob van Tulder. Part 3 South Africa: profitability - the soft underbelly of South African regulation/SSA analysis, Nicoli Nattrass; beyond racial Fordism - restructuring industry in the new South Africa, Christian M. Rogerson. Part 4 Japan: beyond mass production - production and the labour process in Japan, Martin Kenney and Richard Florida; neither Pre- nor Post-Fordism - an original and new way of managing the labour process, Benjamin Coriat; Taylorism and Fordism in Japan, Tatsuo Naruse; what's Ford got to do with it? Regulation theory and Japanese capitalism, J.A. Peck and Y. Miyamachi. Part 5 Other East Asian societies: Third World industrialization - Global Fordism or a new model? Alice H. Amsden; theorizing export-oriented economic development in East Asian newly-industrializing societies - a regulationist perspective, Ngai-Ling Sum; the social structure of accumulation in South Korea - upgrading or crumbling? Seongjin Jeong. Part 6 Socialism and post-socialism: the great transformation of Eastern Europe - a regulationist perspective, Robert Boyer; regulating and institutionalizing capitalisms - the micro-foundations of transformation in Eastern and Central Europe, Adrian Smith and Adam Swain; industrial restructuring in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) - barriers to adaptive reform become downward development spirals, Ulrich Voskamp and Volker Wittke.

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