Post-Fordism: A Reader

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Author: Ash Amin

ISBN-10: 0631188576

ISBN-13: 9780631188575

Category: Economic Systems

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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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.

List of ContributorsAcknowledgements1Post-Fordism: Models, Fantasies and Phantoms of Transition12Puzzling out the Post-Fordist Debate: Technology, Markets and Institutions433The Crisis of Fordism and the Dimensions of a 'Post-Fordist' Regional and Urban Structure714Flexible Specialisation and the Re-emergence of Regional Economies1015A New Paradigm of Work Organization and Technology?1576The Transition to Flexible Specialisation in the US Film Industry: External Economies, the Division of Labour and the Crossing of Industrial Divides1957Competing Structural and Institutional Influences on the Geography of Production in Europe2278Post-Fordism and the State2519Searching for a New Institutional Fix: the After-Fordist Crisis and the Global-Local Disorder28010Post-Fordist City Politics31611Post-Fordism and Democracy33812Flexible Accumulation through Urbanization: Reflections on 'Post-modernism' in the American City36113City Cultures and Post-modern Lifestyles38714The Fortress City: Privatized Spaces, Consumer Citizenship409Index428