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The Changing World of Work: From Primitive Capital Accumulation to Post-Fordism

Explore the evolution of work and its impact on society, from the Protestant work ethic to the rise and decline of Fordism, and the emergence of post-Fordism. Discover the effects of globalization, neoliberal policies, and the changing labor market.

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The Changing World of Work: From Primitive Capital Accumulation to Post-Fordism

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  1. The Changing World of Work Accumulation and reproduction »Primitive capital accumulation« (93). »This included the powerful tensions evoked by Protestantism and the drive towards a life of ceaseless work and rational striving in the hope of earning religious salvation (93). N1: Prevedite in komentirajte gornji stavek! Capitalist economies continue to require various kinds of supports. From the state..., society's members. 'Regime of accumulation' and 'mode of regulation' (94). N2: Kaj pojasnjujeta ta dva pojma? The Fordist regime of accumulation Taylorisation. This progressively deskilled the workforce and increased management's ability to control the labour process (97). Large complex corporations. N3: Na kaj se nanaša »deskilled the worforce«?

  2. K. Marx: materialist, historian, political economist /a theory of a surplusvalue/, sociologists /structure-agency question/. Alienation. - The rise of mass consumption society /leisure society/ - An effective mode of regulation at global and national levels. A cluster of policies that provided good environment for Fordist expansion (100): accommodation between labour and capital, the welfare state, Keynesianism. Explaining the decline of the 'Golden Age' - The crisis of Fordism as a production regime: inflatory pressures, antipathy to 'Fordist bargain', economic recession, post-modern sensibilities. N4: Kaj pomeni 'Fordist bargain'? - A collapsing mode of national and global regulation. The new era of greater flexibility or of the disorder and uncertainty? The spread of worldwide industrialization. - Japanization and the rise of flexible labour. Just-in-time and lean production.

  3. Transformations accompanyining the decline of Fordism • - The shift to service jobs. Service industries. Decline of Fordism? • - The dramatic movement of women into the workforce. Global gender revolution? • Growing competition from NICs. • The age of ‘flexible labour’ and economic insecurity • - Postfordism and business organization: globalisation of style, intensified competition, rapid technological change. Neoliberal policies. Adaptable or flexible workforce, reduction of labour costs. Downsizing and outsourcing. • »This process of spatially optimizing a company's activities involves seeking rationally to fragment overall operations on a worldwide basis. « (111) • N5: Prevedite in pojasnite ta stavek! • Workers in the post-Fordist period • - Women and the new casualised employment • - Deindustrialization and 'rustbelt' zones • - The former communist countries.

  4. As world capitalism becomes more complex and extensive, its dependence in a supportive mode of regulation ant global (and national) levels, forged by far-seeing and cooperative governments, would seem to be more relevant now than ever before (117).

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