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Author:   Jessop
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Volume:   No. 3
Dimensions:   Width: 17.70cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 24.90cm
Weight:   1.134kg
ISBN:  

9781840646535

ISBN 10:   1840646535
Pages:   576
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 Introduction to key issues and approaches: puzzling out the post-Fordist debate - technology, markets and institutions, Mark J. Elam; Fordism and post-Fordism - a critical reformulation, Bob Jessop. Part 2 The origins of the Fordist labour process: the origins of Fordism -the introduction of mass production and the five-dollar wage, Carl H.A. Dassbach; Fordism at Ford - spatial decentralization and labour segmentation at the Ford Motor Company, 1920-1950, Bruce Pietrykowski; science, work, and worktime, Anson G. Rabinbach. Part 3 The crisis of Fordism: labour flexibilities - many forms, uncertain effects, Robert Boyer; the crisis in Fordism and the rise of a new technological paradigm, Annemieke J.M. Roobeek; the eighties - the search for alternatives to Fordism, Robert Boyer; productivity and the crisis of Fordism, Andrew Glyn; the end of mass production? Karel Williams, Tony Cutler, John Williams and Colin Haslam. Part 4 Beyond Fordism to...?: new concepts of production in West German plants, Horst Kern and Michael Schuman; new concepts of production and productivity, Michael Schuman; developing Neo-Fordism - a comparative perspective, Heidi Gottfried; the Japanization of Fordism, Stephen Wood; from Fordism to Toyotism ? The social organization of the labour process in the Japanese automobile industry, Knuth Dohse, Ulrich Jurgens and Thomas Malsch; conceptual fallacies and open questions on post-Fordism, Daniele Leborgne and Alain Lipietz; the information society - from Fordism to Gatesism, Gaetan Tremblay; industrial districts and regional economic development - a regulation approach, Sean Digiovanna. Part 5 General reviews: post-Fordism in question, Andrew Sayer; variety of pattern of the post-Fordist economy - why are the old times still with us and the new times yet to come? Fiorenza Belussi and Francesco Garibaldo.

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