| Title:
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FORDISM AND FLEXIBILITY
DIVISIONS AND CHANGE |
| By: |
Roger Burrows (Editor), Nigel Gilbert (Editor), Anna Pollert (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£92.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0333618157 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780333618158 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
18 June, 1994 |
| Series: |
Explorations in Sociology. |
| Pages: |
206 |
| Description: |
The profound changes in the labour market during the 1980s are examined in this book in relation to the ideas of flexible specialization and the "flexible firm" and Marxist regulation theory, supplemented by fresh empirical evidence concerning changes in the labour process. |
| Synopsis: |
During the 1980s there were profound changes in the labour process towards the 'flexible worker' and in the labour market towards a 'flexible workforce'. Three approaches to explain these changes provide the focus for this book: Marxist regulation theory; the notion of flexible specialisation associated with the 'new' institutional economics; and the model of the flexible firm derived from managerialist literature. In the book, the claims made by these approaches are investigated and their implications are examined in relation to emerging patterns of work in advanced societies. |
| Illustrations: |
XII, 206 p. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |