Post-Fordism: A Reader - Couverture rigide

Amin, Ash

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0631188568 ISBN 13 : 9780631188568

Editeur : Blackwell Publishers, 1994

Synopsis

The contested notion of "post-Fordism" has been at the centre of wide-ranging debates over the nature of contemporary capitalism and has had a wide influence across the social sciences and, increasingly, the humanities. This volume aims to introduce and critically assess the concept of post-Fordism and the debates which surround it.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

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 an introduction to debates over the nature of capitalism′s newest age and includes key texts by post–Fordism′s major theorists and commentators.

At the heart of the book lie several related questions. Is the mass production era of Henry Ford now over, and has "Fordism" finished? Are new "information technologies" transforming western economies and creating new forms of social, political and cultural life in the process? The answers have been hotly contested, not least by writers sympathetic to a post–Fordist perspective.

From Ash Amin′s indispensable introductory essay to Susan Christopherson′s bracing account of the contemporary "fortress city", this book is a guide through post–Fordism′s models, fantasies and phantoms of transition.

The other contributors are: Mark Elam, Josef Esser, Mike Featherstone, David Harvey, Joachim Hirsch, Bob Jessop, Alain Lipietz, Anders Malmberg, Margit Mayer, Jamie Peck, Charles Sabel, Michael Storper, Adam Tickell, and John Tomaney.

Revue de presse

"Those tempted to venture onto this contested terrain would be well advised to choose their guidebook carefully and at present there are few which do the job better that Ash Amin′s edited collection. The book′s key virtue, it seems to me, is that it does not pursue a particular agenda in relation to the debate, but draws its contributions from across the spectrum of opinion." J. H. Love, Regional Studies

"If this particular Reader were a CD then it would no doubt be called ′Now That′s What I Call Post–Fordism′ or perhaps ′The Best Book on Post–Fordism... Ever!′." Andrew Leyshon, University of Bristol

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blackwell Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0631188568
• ISBN 13: 9780631188568
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible