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Fordism and Flexibility

Divisions and Change

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Nigel Gilbert

    1. University of Surrey, UK

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  2. Roger Burrows

    1. School of Human Studies, University of Teesside, UK

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  3. Anna Pollert

    1. Industrial Relations Unit, University of Warwick, UK

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Part of the book series: Explorations in Sociology. (EIS)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages iii-xii
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  2. Introduction: Fordism, Post-Fordism and Economic Flexibility

    1. Introduction: Fordism, Post-Fordism and Economic Flexibility

      • Roger Burrows, Nigel Gilbert, Anna Pollert
      Pages 1-9

  3. Historical and Theoretical Critiques

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. What in the F---’s Name is Fordism

      • Simon Clarke
      Pages 13-30

    3. Where’s the Value in ‘Post-Fordism’?

      • Jamie Gough
      Pages 31-45

  4. Locality Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
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    2. Labour Market Change and the Organisation of Work

      • Al Rainnie, David Kraithman
      Pages 49-65

    3. Flexibility in Britain during the 1980s: Recent Empirical Evidence

      • Roger Penn
      Pages 66-86

  5. Industrial Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. Inflexible Flexibility: A Case Study of Modularisation

      • Tony Elger, Peter Fairbrother
      Pages 89-106

    3. Management Control and a New Regime of Subordination: Post-Fordism and the Local Economy

      • Philip Garrahan, Paul Stewart
      Pages 107-117

    4. Gender, Technology and Flexibility in the UK Mail Order Industry

      • Steve Leman
      Pages 118-133

  6. New Patterns of Employment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Older Worker Employment: Change and Continuity in the 1980s

      • Bernard Casey, Frank Laczko
      Pages 137-153

    3. Structure and Sentiment: Family and Rationality Within the Capitalist Enterprise

      • Ian Roberts, Glyn Holroyd
      Pages 154-169

    4. Over the Threshold? Public and Private Choices in New Information Technology Homeworking

      • Stephen Lloyd Smith, James Anderson
      Pages 170-185

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 186-208
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Surrey, UK

    Nigel Gilbert

  • School of Human Studies, University of Teesside, UK

    Roger Burrows

  • Industrial Relations Unit, University of Warwick, UK

    Anna Pollert

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