Post-Fordism, Gender and Work

by Andrea Wigfield

In recent years there has been extensive debate concerning the way in which advanced industrialized nations have encountered economic restructuring, experiencing a shift away from the dominance of Fordism and the emergence of more flexible modes of production. The principal theoretical perspectives in this field, the Institutionalist theory of Flexible Specialization and the Regulationist theory of Post-Fordism, fail to adequately incorporate a gender-informed analysis into their respective models of economic restructuring. This book aims to address the gap in existing Post-Fordist literature and is the first of its kind to comprehensively explore gender relations in the Post-Fordist economy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075461087X
• ISBN13: 9780754610878
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
• Length: 230 Pages