Post-Fordism A Reader [Paperback]

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 Contributors.

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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 AfterlÃ