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单词 Fordism
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Definition of Fordism in English:

Fordism

noun ˈfɔːdɪz(ə)m
mass noun
  • The use in manufacturing industry of the methods pioneered by Henry Ford, typified by large-scale mechanized mass production.

    福特主义,福特方式(大规模机械化生产,由亨利·福特首创)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Very similar points can be made about the relation between Fordism and Total Quality Management.
    • By contrast, others have looked at how globalization is associated with the construction of scale, noting the enhanced importance of supra- and subnational scales since the crisis of First World Fordism.
    • Later in the book, he calls this Fordism because Henry Ford believed that ‘if they pounded away at the root and heart of the family in the home,’ results would be better than if they pounded away at the fellows at their work.
    • He develops this argument through an engagement with regulation theory; that is, the scales of Fordism and the construction of those new scales through which Fordism was undone.
    • This kind of Fordism may never have existed but it does provide a point of reference for thinking about forms of capitalism whose contradictions are manageable.
    • Despite the great enthusiasm for American methods, Fordism, as it was becoming known, did not take root in Germany.
    • Believing that military security depended upon a modernized and industrially competitive France, Michelin selectively embraced aspects of American mass production techniques, notably scientific management and Fordism.
    • Techniques of industrial mass production, also known as Fordism, created mass consumption, even though very unevenly.
    • Somewhat more inclusively, Fordism is identified with mass production, the use of specialized machinery and semiskilled labor to manufacture standardized products in large volumes.
    • At times, it reads like a textbook of social and geographic theory, with chapters devoted to the modernist cultural form, post - modernity, mass consumption, Fordism, and post-Fordism.
    • The division of the ‘task unit,’ after all, was crucial to assembly-line mass production and would soon make possible the capital accumulation strategies of Fordism.
    • Then onto the production line of foodstuffs - Fordism finally harnessed for the benefit of mankind!
    • This is reflected in my work on the crisis of Atlantic Fordism and the transition to post-Fordism and the possibilities of delineating a post-Fordist form of state analogous to the Keynesian welfare national state.
    • The craft unions lost their strong position in the labour market in the wake of Taylorism and Fordism.
    • The so-called crisis of Fordism should be seen as a crisis of international regulation.
    • Since the automobile and the distilling industry are vastly different, the production technology varied greatly to the point that the distilling industry could not use the principles of Fordism that achieved mass production.
    • Christian dated the moment of the switch from Fordism to post-Fordism very precisely: October 6, 1979.
    • The former phenomenon-the industrialisation of culture-emerged as a process with the rise of Fordism.
    • Indeed, the Treaty of Rome contains little, if anything at all, of what is commonly understood by Keynesianism or associated with so-called Fordism.
    • The effort to place capitalist activity at the centre of the analysis is suggested by the use of the label Fordism to identify the latest stage of development.

Derivatives

  • Fordist

  • noun & adjective
    • The mechanical world view of old fashioned cybernetic thinkers - Fordists who think in terms of mobilized masses, mobs goose stepping to the tune piped by some power, following a leader - is slowly fading as the mass production phase of human civilization passes.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The ‘rigidity’ of the Fordist production line gave way to a new ‘flexibility’, a word that will send chills of recognition down the spine of every worker today.
      • The movement to multi-site manufacture in this perspective represents an extension of management control over several sites, the exportation of Fordist manufacturing capacity.
      • As best as I can tell they're more like Fordists and resemble the Social Democrat parties in Europe.
      • The Fordist employment relationship, which was the central institutional form in the post-war pattern of growth was sacrificed on the altar of rigour and monetary stability and was replaced by a competitive system of wage regulation.
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