Fordism and Flexibility: Divisions and Change

by Nigel Gilbert

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333618157
• ISBN13: 9780333618158
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"