Ash Amin

Post-Fordism

Herausgeber: Amin, Ash

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first collection of key writings on `post-fordism , edited and introduced for the uninitiated by a leading scholar in the field.
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Part analysis of contemporary change and part vision of the future, post-Fordism lends its name to a set of challenging, essential and controversial debates over the nature of capitalism s newest age. This book provides a superb introduction to these debates and their far-reaching implications, and includes key texts by post-Fordism s major theorists and commentators.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Urban and Social Change
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 1994.
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 722g
• ISBN-13: 9780631188575
• ISBN-10: 0631188576
• Artikelnr.: 14741884

Autorenporträt

Ash Amin works in the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. He is the editor, most recently, of Globalisation, Institutions and Regional Development in Europe (with Nigel Thrift).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors.
Acknowledgements.
1. Post-Fordism: Models, Fantasies and Phantoms of Transition: Ash Amin
(University of Newcastle).
Part I: New Macroeconomic Designs:.
2. Puzzling out the Post-Fordist Debate: Technology, Markets and
Institutions: Mark Elam (Linkoping University).
3. The Crisis of Fordism and the Dimensions of a 'Post-Fordist' Regional
and Urban Structure: Josef Esser (Goethe University, Germany) and Joachim
Hirsch (Goethe University, Germany).
Part II: New Sociologies and Geographies of Industrial Organisation: .
4. Flexible Specialisation and the Re-emergence of Regional Economies:
Charles F. Sabel (MIT, USA).
5. A New Paradigm of Work Organization and Technology: John Tomaney
(University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne).
6. The Transition to Flexible Specialization in the US Film Industry:
External Economies, the Division of Labour and the Crossing of Industrial
Divides: Michael Storper (University of California, Los Angeles, USA).
7. Competing Structural and Institutional Influences on the Geography of
Production in Europe: Ash Amin (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) and
Anders Malmberg (Uppsala University, Sweden).
Part III: Policy and Politics Beyond Fordism:.
8. Post-Fordism and the State: Bob Jessop (Lancaster University).
9. Searching for a New Institutional Fix: The After-Fordist crisis and
Global-local Disorder: Jamie Peck (Manchester University) and Adam Tickel
(Leeds University).
10. Post-Fordist City Politics: Margit Mayer (Free University of Berlin,
Germany).
11. Post-Fordism and Democracy: Alain Lipietz (CEPREMAP, Paris, France).
Part IV: Post-Fordist City Lives and Lifestyles:.
12. Flexible Accumulation through Urbanization: Reflections on
'Post-Modernism' in the American City: David Harvey (Johns Hopkins
University).
13. City Cultures and Postmodern Lifestyles: Mike Featherstone (Teeside
University).
14. The Fortress City: Privatized Spaces, Consumer Citizenship: Susan
Christopherson (Cornell University, USA).
Index.