Post-Fordism: A Reader by Ash Amin

By Ash Amin

Half research of up to date swap and half imaginative and prescient of the long run, post-Fordism lends its identify to a suite of hard, crucial and debatable debates over the character of capitalism's most up-to-date age. This ebook presents an outstanding creation to those debates and their far-reaching implications, and comprises key texts by means of post-Fordism's significant theorists and commentators.

Content:
Chapter 1 Post?Fordism: versions, Fantasies and Phantoms of Transition (pages 1–39): Ash Amin
Chapter 2 perplexing Out the Post?Fordist Debate: expertise, Markets and associations (pages 43–70): Mark Elam
Chapter three The challenge of Fordism and the size of a ‘Post?Fordist’ local and concrete constitution (pages 71–97): Josef Esser and Joachim Hirsch
Chapter four versatile Specialisation and the Re?Emergence of nearby Economies (pages 101–156): Charles F. Sabel
Chapter five a brand new Paradigm of labor association and expertise? (pages 157–194): John Tomaney
Chapter 6 The Transition to versatile Specialisation within the US movie undefined: exterior Economies, the department of Labour and the Crossing of commercial Divides (pages 195–226): Michael Storper
Chapter 7 Competing Structural and Institutional affects at the Geography of creation in Europe (pages 227–248): Ash Amin and Anders Malmberg
Chapter eight Post?Fordism and the country (pages 251–279): Bob Jessop
Chapter nine looking for a brand new Institutional repair: The After?Fordist predicament and the Global?Local disease (pages 280–315): Jamie Peck and Adam Tickell
Chapter 10 Post?Fordist urban Politics (pages 316–337): Margit Mayer
Chapter eleven Post?Fordism and Democracy (pages 338–357): Alain Lipietz
Chapter 12 versatile Accumulation via Urbanization: Reflections on ‘Post?Modernism’ within the American urban (pages 361–386): David Harvey
Chapter thirteen urban Cultures and Post?Modern existence (pages 387–408): Mike Featherstone
Chapter 14 The citadel urban: Privatized areas, shopper Citizenship (pages 409–427): Susan Christopherson

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A NEO-SCHUMPETERIAN PERSPECTIVE The theoretical point of departure for this perspective is Schumpeter’s reworking of Kondratiev’s notion of ‘long waves’ in the development of capitalist economies. According to Schumpeter, these long-waves of roughly fifty years’ duration reflect a process of ‘creative destruction’ and long-term changes in the technological base of the economy: The fundamental impulse that sets and keeps the capitalist engine in motion comes from the new consumers’ goods, the new methods of production or transportation, the new markets, the new forms of industrial organisation that capitalist enterprise creates.

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