Fordism and Flexibility
Divisions and Change
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Introduction
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.
Keywords
employment gender Information Technology (IT) institutional economics labor market labour market organization technology
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- DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13526-4
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1992
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
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- Print ISBN 978-0-333-61815-8
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