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" Post-Fordism : "
edited by Ash Amin
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BL
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658837
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Post-Fordism : : a reader /\ edited by Ash Amin
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| Series Statement
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Studies in urban and social change
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viii, 435 pages ;; 23 cm
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0631188576
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: 9780631188575
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: 0631188568
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: 9780631188568
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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1. Post-Fordism: Models, Fantasies and Phantoms of Transition / Ash Amin -- 2. Puzzling out the Post-Fordist Debate: Technology, Markets and Institutions / Mark Elam -- 3. The Crisis of Fordism and the Dimensions of a 'Post-Fordist' Regional and Urban Structure / Josef Esser and Joachim Hirsch -- 4. Flexible Specialisation and the Re-emergence of Regional Economies / Charles F. Sabel -- 5. A New Paradigm of Work Organization and Technology? / John Tomaney -- 6. The Transition to Flexible Specialisation in the US Film Industry: External Economies, the Division of Labour and the Crossing of Industrial Divides / Michael Storper -- 7. Competing Structural and Institutional Influences on the Geography of Production in Europe / Ash Amin and Anders Malmberg -- 8. Post-Fordism and the State / Bob Jessop -- 9. Searching for a New Institutional Fix: the After-Fordist Crisis and the Global-Local Disorder / Jamie Peck and Adam Tickell -- 10. Post-Fordist City Politics / Margit Mayer
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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. At the heart of the book lie several related questions. Is the mass production era of Henry Ford now over, and has 'Fordism' finished? Are new 'information technologies' transforming Western economies and creating new forms of social, political and cultural life in the process? The answers have been hotly contested, not least by writers sympathetic to a post-Fordist perspective. From Ash Amin's indispensable introductory essay to Susan Christopherson's bracing account of the contemporary 'fortress city', this book is a vivid guide through post-Fordism's models, fantasies and phantoms of transition
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Technological innovations-- Economic aspects
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Technological innovations-- Social aspects
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Industrial organization
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Capitalism
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Regional economic disparities
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| Dewey Classification
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338/.064
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HC79.T4P667 1994
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Amin, Ash
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