Post-Fordism : a reader

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Post-Fordism : a reader

edited by Ash Amin

(Studies in urban and social change)

Blackwell Pub., 1994

  • : hard
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographies and index

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: hard ISBN 9780631188568

Description

The contested notion of "post-Fordism" has been at the centre of wide-ranging debates over the nature of contemporary capitalism and has had a wide influence across the social sciences and, increasingly, the humanities. This volume aims to introduce and critically assess the concept of post-Fordism and the debates which surround it.

Table of Contents

1. Post-Fordism: Models, fantasies and phantoms of transition: Ash Amin. Part One: New Macroeconomic Designs: 2. Puzzling out the Post-Fordist debate: technology, markets and institutions: Mark Elam. 3. The Crisis of Fordism and the Dimensions of a "post-Fordist" regional and urban structure: Josef Esser and Joachim Hirsch. Part Two: New Sociologies and Geographies of Industrial Organization: 4. Flexible specialization and the re-emergence of regional economies: Charles Sabel. 5. A new paradigm of work organization and technology: John Tomaney. 6. The transition to flexible specialization in the US film industry: external economies, the division of labour and the crossing of industrial divides: Michael Storper. 7. Competing structural and institutional influences on the geography of production in Europe: Ash Amin and Anders Malmberg. Part Three: Policy and Politics Beyond Fordism: 8. Post-Fordism and the state. 9. Searching for a new institutional fix: the after-Fordist crisis and global-local disorder. 10. Post-Fordist city politics: Margit Mayer. 11. Post-Fordism and democracy: Alain Lipietz. Part Four: Post-Fordist City Lives and Lifestyles: 12. Flexible accumulation through urbanization: reflections on post-modernism in the American city. 13. City cultures and postmodern lifestyles: Mike Featherstone. 14. The fortress city: privatized spaces, consumer citizenship: Susan Christopherson.
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: pbk ISBN 9780631188575

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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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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 and Institutions: 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 Industrial Organisation: . 4. Flexible Specialisation and the Re-emergence of Regional Economies: Charles F. Sabel (MIT, USA). 5. A New Paradigm of Work Organization and Technology: John Tomaney (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne). 6. The Transition to Flexible Specialization in the US Film Industry: External Economies, the Division of Labour and the Crossing of Industrial Divides: Michael Storper (University of California, Los Angeles, USA). 7. Competing Structural and Institutional Influences on the Geography of Production in Europe: Ash Amin (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) and Anders Malmberg (Uppsala University, Sweden). Part III: Policy and Politics Beyond Fordism:. 8. Post-Fordism and the State: Bob Jessop (Lancaster University). 9. Searching for a New Institutional Fix: The After-Fordist crisis and Global-local Disorder: Jamie Peck (Manchester University) and Adam Tickel (Leeds University). 10. Post-Fordist City Politics: Margit Mayer (Free University of Berlin, 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 Hopkins University). 13. City Cultures and Postmodern Lifestyles: Mike Featherstone (Teeside University). 14. The Fortress City: Privatized Spaces, Consumer Citizenship: Susan Christopherson (Cornell University, USA). Index.

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