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Overview
"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. The book incorporates a gender dimension into the economic restructuring debate on both a theoretical and a practical level. It also explores the implications of economic restructuring in the workplace for gender relations. Several questions emerge from this discussion relating to issues around numerical flexibility, functional flexibility and technological change. The volume is intended as an important contribution to both Post-Fordist and feminist literature, whilst at the same time providing a practical insight into Post-Fordist method for work organization based on the concept of team working."--BOOK JACKET.Synopsis
Wigfield (economics, Sheffield Hallam U., UK) incorporates a gender dimension into the economic restructuring debate. The volume examines the Institutionalist and Regulationist theories of economic restructuring, develops a series of theoretical arguments concerning the implications of economic restructuring for gender relations, and examines the empirical investigation of the introduction of team working in the Nottinghamshire clothing industry. Questions addressed in the empirical investigation focus on numerical flexibility and functional flexibility and technological change.
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Book Details
Published
June 1, 2001
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing, Limited
Pages
238
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780754610878