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	Fordism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fordism is related to keynesianism and also taylorism.
		The social scientific concept of "Fordism" was introduced by French regulation school, sometimes known as regulation theory, which is a Marxist-influenced strand of political economy.
		Fordism is a tag used to characterise the post WWII (and in some case arguably pre war) long boom experienced by western nations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fordism (807 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Fordism
		A CRITIQUE OF THE FORDISM OF by Ferruccio Gambino
		According to the regulation school, Fordism penetrated the vital ganglia of the US engineering industry and became its catalysing force in a period that is undefined, but presumably in the 1920s, delivering high wages and acting as the cutting edge of the consumption of consumer durables.
		Fordism mobilised industrial capacities at both the extremes of high skilled and low skilled labour, without the system being destabilised by this polarisation; satisfactory profits were produced from mass consumption, which kept pace with growing investments.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fordism (1521 words)

	Miss Whisky - Fordism Reconsidered
		The paradigm of Fordism is the most popular and commonly used model when an examination of manufacturing industries in the first half of the twentieth century is undertaken.
		The paradigm of Fordism characterizes changes within the workforce in terms of the creation of an unskilled workforce, the loss of craftsmanship due to machinery and the introduction of women which meant gender specific tasks within the plant.
		The distilling industry therefore could not utilize the Fordism paradigm in the 1920s because it had already undergone mass production within the industry and had moved into a second phase of change and that is organization within the plant design to better improve the efficiency on a different level.
	www.frymybacon.com /articles/articles.php?article_ID=307 (2690 words)

	Post-fordism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Post-Fordism is the mode of production increasingly found in most industrialized countries today, which can be contrasted with fordism, the productive method typified by Henry Ford's car plants, in which workers work on a production line, performing specialised tasks repetitively.
		Fordism was the techno-economic paradigm of the fourth Kondratiev Wave, and post-Fordism is thus the techno-economic paradigm of the fifth, which is dominated by Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
		Baca, George, 2004, "Legends of Fordism: Between Myth, History, and Foregone Conclusions," Social Analysis,48(3): 169-178.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Post-fordism (663 words)

	fordism, Sociology, College Term Papers.com
		Fordism's mechanisation of mass production further emphasised many of Taylor’s popular beliefs about management being divorced from human affairs and emotions, using ‘humans as instruments or machines to be manipulated by their leaders’ (Hersey p.84).
		Fordism dehumanisied the worker whereas scientific management convinced the workers that their goals could be readily achieved along with their employers goals, therefore they should all work together in this direction.
		Fordism did not care for the workers to work as a team and to ‘Heartily co-operate … to ensure that all work is done in accordance with the principles of science’ like Taylor’s ideas of scientific management did (Robbins,1997, p.40).
	www.collegetermpapers.com /TermPapers/Sociology/fordism.shtml (2112 words)

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		What seems to define green economists most clearly is the rejection of all analyses of factors of production or means of production that fail to clearly and fundamentally distinguish between living (nature, persons)and non-living (financial, social, instructional, infrastructural) roles in a productive process.
		This deindustrialization is seen in the withdrawal of 11 automobile plants from Flint, Michigan, and the opening of 11 new automobile plants in Mexico.
		Socialism entails a series of observations, value-judgements, and goals which not only call for production for the needs of all of society but for the quality of work life and respect for workers as the basis of all society.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/F/Fordism.htm (826 words)

	Crisis of Fordism
		Brenner and Glick (1991) argued persuasively that Fordism should not be understood in terms of the institutionalized correspondence of mass production and mass consumption since the pre-Depression years were not a period of extraordinary *underconsumption, nor was consumption historically high relative to total output in the postwar 'golden age' (Brenner and Glick: 84, 93-5).
		But Fordism can also be understood in terms of a socio-political regime, a set of institutionalized relationships between the social organization of production on the one hand, and social self-understandings and political organizations on the other.
		Fordism entailed increased mechanization of the labor process and the potential for heightened capitalist control over the pace and intensity of work.
	www.maxwell.syr.edu /maxpages/faculty/merupert/Research/Fordism/Crisis.HTM (958 words)

	NPQ
		For some, the shift from Fordism to millennialism is a rake’s progress: the end of a system that produced peace, justice, mass prosperity and social security and the rise of a grotesque new system of inequality, instability and bare-knuckled competition in a hideous, neoliberal dog-eat-dog world.
		Fordism sought to protect consumers in monopoly industries like electricity or water from the abuse of monopoly power through preventive regulation.
		Fordism is coming to an end because it is no longer the most efficient method to organize capitalist production.
	www.digitalnpq.org /archive/2004_summer/mead.html (3341 words)

	A Critique of the Fordism of the Regulation School / Wildcat-Zirkular No. 28/29
		In what follows I shall outline briefly the periodisation which the inventors of the regulationist notion of Fordism have given their idea, because this is crucial if we are to understand the ways in which it is semantically distinct from pre-trade union Fordism; I shall then sketch the basic characteristics of the latter.
		According to the regulation school, Fordism penetrated the vital ganglia of the US engineering industry and became its catalysing force in a period that is undefined, but presumably in the 1920s, delivering high wages and acting as the cutting edge of the mass consumption of consumer durables.
		However, in the era of pre-trade union Fordism it should be remembered that in the periods of restructuring of the factory, of changes of models and of technological innovation, the "whispering" of restructuration was not only productive, but was actually essential to the successful outcome of the operation.
	www.wildcat-www.de /en/zirkular/28/z28e_gam.htm (8403 words)

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		Dispersed Fordism and a New Organisation of Labour The following is a transaction of a text from the June '91 edition of the Spanish magazine Etcetera based loosely around the Spanish truck drivers' strike of October 1990.
		DISPERSED FORDISM AND A NEW ORGANISATION OF LABOUR.
		The appearance of the 4th world in the rich countries, gives rise to the theory of the 3 "thatcherite" stages": the deterioration of living conditions in the metropolis, the extension of pathological forms feeding off capital accumulation such as drug addiction and the homeless in 'cardboard cities', those who are surplus to the logistical chain.
	www.spunk.org /library/pubs/hn/sp000291.txt (4026 words)

	POST-FORDISM AND THE STATE
		Fordism involves mass production of consumer durables which are made on moving assembly line techniques operated with the semi-skilled labour of the mass worker.
		Also typical in Fordism is the separation of ownership and control in large corporations, the monopoly pricing, union recognition and the state involvement in managing the conflicts between capital and labour.
		The dynamics of Fordism is closely related to the form and function of the Keynesian welfare state, which in turn has important implications for the dynamic of Fordism.
	www.geo.ut.ee /inimtool/referaadid/krap/referaat_palhus.htm (2230 words)

	fordism
		Fordism is a term coined by Antonio Gramsci and used by critical analysts to designate a specifically 20th century corporate regime of mechanized production coupled with the mass consumption of standardized products.
		But Fordism also meant corporate bureaucratization as the largest firms sought to rationalize all conditions of managing production and consumption.
		Eventually, after seven decades of Fordism, the costs of Fordism had begun to haunt it.
	www.lclark.edu /~soan221/fordism2.html (589 words)

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		Fordism, Gramsci wrote, was associated with a new "programmed" capitalism.
		So Henry Ford's Fordism was an extremely powerful idea but ultimately it could not work in the form that he proposed.
		And yet, if Fordism was thus ushered in over the violent objections of Henry Ford and his friends, Gramsci turned out to be quite right.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /~rbutler/fordism.htm (2796 words)

	fordism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Fordism, named after Henry Ford, is often considered to be a period in economic history, starting around 1914 and ending in 1973.
		During the postwar boom, Fordism developed into a fully-fledged and distinctive regime of accumulation, meaning the stabilization over a long period of the net product between consumption and accumulation -- based on a general, although tacit, social contract between labor and corporate power.
		The main implication of the post-Fordist model is the space-time compression of globalization.
	www.christianhubert.com /hypertext/fordism.html (353 words)

	Fordism & Postfordism
		Fordism refers to the system of mass production and consumption characteristic of highly developed economies during the 1940s-1960s.
		Under Fordism, mass consumption combined with mass production to produce sustained economic growth and widespread material advancement.
		Surprisingly, one of the first was Frederick Taylor, who coined the term Fordism.
	www.willamette.edu /~fthompso/MgmtCon/Fordism_&_Postfordism.html (2759 words)

	media freedom - the hypermedia research centre - University of Westminster
		With the development of Fordism, the individual owners of private property were gradually separated into a minority of shareholders of joint-stock companies and a majority of wage-workers.
		But, with the advent of Fordism, newspapers could only be created by the collective labour of large numbers of wage workers on mechanised presses.
		In the 1920s, the radio set manufacturing companies were at the leading edge of the second industrial revolution of electronic technologies, which was transforming the economies of the major capitalist countries.
	www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk /theory-mediafreedom5.html (1216 words)

	Consuming Culture: Postmodernism, Post-Fordism, and Economics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It is argued that the movement from modernity to postmodernity is reflected in changes in the conception of self and the economy that have emerged as a consequence of consumerism and shifts in production away from mass design and toward specialization, ie, toward the post-Fordist regime.
		It is further contended that: the conceptual congruence between postmodernity and post-Fordism is wanting, the movement from Fordism to post-Fordism reveals contradictions in the theory of post-Fordism itself, and the modernity/postmodernity debate is crucial for any radical economics.
		The interplay between modern and postmodern, and Fordist and post-Fordist, features of daily life is examined via an analysis of the meanings constructed in the domain of consumer services, showing that the postmodern critique of contemporary capitalism can be used to develop a discourse of consumption for radical political economics.
	www.nd.edu /~remarx/rm/contents/v7/i1/p0062.html (164 words)

	Where is North American Automobile Production Headed? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In other words, where Fordism tripartite division of activities was previously articulated nationally and organizationally as a division between activities in the same nation, region or city, transnational production articulated this division globally.
		Fordism's lack of stringent in-process quality control, combined with large production runs because components were manufactured for export, meant that foreign plants could produce large stocks of defective components.
		One of lean production's most radical breaks with Fordism is empowering workers to stop the line if they are experiencing difficulties with their work which cannot be resolved without assistance or if there are significant problems in quality.
	www.sociology.org /content/vol001.001/dassbach.dhtml (7031 words)

	Fordism in France
		Fordism represented a veritable cultural frame, albeit not on the scale of a totalizing, Bourdieu-style habitus, as Martha Banta has implied.
		French modernists and publicists could appreciate the pristine logic of what they understood to be Fordism and its inextricable link between rationalized mass production and popular consumerism, yet once they tried to implement that agenda, the messiness of culture intervened to rewrite the terms of reception.
		French society also reinvented the American artifacts that were to be the devices for implanting Fordism in the French home, and the tortured history of the washing machine in interwar France underlines this problem.
	www.si.umich.edu /~rfrost/papers/Fordism.html (11831 words)

	FORDISM: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		fordism is structured around the organizational and technological innovations of taylor and ford
		4) it is clear that there has been, and continues to be, considerable flexibility within fordism, with continued success in developing markets for extensions to, and spin-offs of, existing mass produced products such as tv's (e.g.
		it is worth noting also that fordism is becoming as dominant in certain developing countries (e.g.
	www.uel.ac.uk /elbs/undergraduate/economics/mgm/FORDISM.htm (1488 words)

	HERDSA 1996: Campion - debates about bureaucracy: Implications for dual mode universities
		The foundational issue was that for the last twenty or thirty years, debate and policy formulation within and around distance education had been dominated by a proposition put forward in the early 70s.
		I have and am arguing first that bureaucracy grew within Fordism and, second, that the Fordist framework strengthens, and is in turn strengthened by, a clearer grasp of the conceptual framework related to bureaucracy.
		Modernist organisations may be thought of in terms of Weber's typification of bureaucratised, mechanistic structures of control, as these were subsequently erected upon a fully rationalised base of divided and deskilled labour.
	www.herdsa.org.au /confs/1996/campion.html (3884 words)

	Jane Jenson - Different but Not Exceptional: The Feminism of Permeable Fordism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		My essay ‘Canada’s Permeable Fordism’ was about the big questions tackled by the big boys: development strategies, the state, capital and labour, comparative political economy.
		The rationale for developing the concepts of ‘permeable Fordism’ and the ‘societal paradigm’ came from a long-standing dissatisfaction with the literature of political economy.
		It is this goal that has come up against the wall of post-structuralism’s rejection of subjects, subjectivity and power anywhere but in disembodied discourse, and it marks a break between those who continue along the path of ‘discourse analysis’ and those who move towards theories of historical agency.
	www.newleftreview.net /IssueI180.asp?Article=04 (5264 words)

	Taylorism and Fordism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Antonio Gramsci called Fordism "an ultra-modern form of production and of working methods such as is offered by the most advanced American variety, the industry of Henry Ford."
		Henry Ford and the Model T: Ford pioneered the modern model of mass production which bears his name, and which is often said to date from the development of the first moving assembly lines, put into operation at Ford's Model T plant at Highland Park, Michigan in 1914.
		Fordism thus involved standardizing a product and manufacturing it by mass means at a price so low that the common man could afford to buy it.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /AnS/Anthro/Anth101/taylorism_and_fordism.htm (312 words)

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