post-fordism

Recent debates about Post-Fordism will be central to the analysis.

What post-Fordism represents is the fracture of that vision.

Because Post-Fordism describes the world as it is today, various thinkers have different views of its form and implications.

Other critics believe that post-Fordism does exist, but coexists with Fordism.

Perhaps then Britain is only losing from its delay in moving to 'post-Fordism', and creating the flexible small modern factory.

Post-fordism is therefore one of the basic aspects of postmodernity from Harvey's point of view.

Definitions of the nature and scope of Post-Fordism vary considerably and are a matter of debate among scholars.

Corporatism and post-Fordism have led to the control of industry, employment and markets from international centres which supervise the socio-economic development of continental trading communities.

Consequently, a new system of economic production, characterized by greater flexibility and the exploitation of economies of scope, known as Post-Fordism, began to emerge.

Service economy, high-tech economy, late-capitalism, post-fordism, and global economy are among the most frequently used terms, having some overlaps and contradictions among themselves.

Later under the inspiration of Antonio Gramsci, Marxists picked up the Fordism concept in the 1930s and in the 1970s developed "Post-Fordism."

In contrast, in the Post-Fordist (see Post-Fordism) period, characterized by neoliberalism, deindustrialization and the dismantling of the welfare state, these understandings of temporary labor began to shift.

The transition from Fordism to Post-fordism is a key factor - workers in western nations are no longer concentrated in large workplaces, but employed widely in the service and public sectors.

That said, scholars view this recession more importantly as a representation of a larger structural shift from a Fordism economic production system underpinning many North American industries, toward one of Post-Fordism.

Closely related concepts are the post-industrial society (Daniel Bell), post-fordism, post-modern society, knowledge society, telematic society, Information Revolution, liquid modernity, and network society (Manuel Castells).

Post-Fordism (also named Flexibilism) is the name given by some scholars to what they describe as the dominant system of economic production, consumption and associated socio-economic phenomena, in most industrialized countries since the late 20th century.

In both debates, terms such as flexibility and post-Fordism have loomed large and the automobile industry has frequently figured prominently in both and strong claims are made as to innovatory and transformatory effects of developments in vehicle manufacture and design.

Post-contemporary society is strongly related to the values of sustainability, putting in plain words the description of a civilization that meets the higher human real needs for a vast majority in an advanced post-industrial universe, shifting forward into new paradigms of Post-Fordism and and Post-Tylorism.