The theory that modern industrial production should change from the large-scale mass-production methods pioneered by Henry Ford towards the use of small flexible manufacturing units.
后福特主义
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These debates concern Marxist state theory; Fordism and post-Fordism; the regulation approach; the relevance of autopoiesis to Marxist analysis; and, most recently, critical realism.
Unlike many writers on capitalism and globalization, I do not focus my analysis on Fordism, post-Fordism, and or regulation.
As can be seen, French researchers remain skeptical about the unified nature of post-Fordism, flexible accumulation, and its spatial manifestation, the district.
A large number of proposals have been made: post-Fordism or neo-Fordism are the most frequently cited labels for the regime of accumulation.
But in post-Fordism, when the assembly line becomes a ‘flux of information’, people work by communicating.
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post-Fordist
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The vulnerability of post-Fordist production processes to the power that international capital exerted over their financial and organisational contexts was also neglected.
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Many corporations were successful in their post-Fordist strategies, but many others saw their experiments turn against them.
Throughout the post-Fordist debate, the flexible production system has been widely considered a viable alternative to the traditional Fordist production system.
And if these are truly new, then they are inimical to the quotidian exploitation of Fordist / post-Fordist present.
The post-Fordist views of the late 1980s and early 1990s also tended to inform those involved in plans for the textile industry at the time.