The Post-Industrial Economy: Labour, Skills and the New Mode of Production
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Service Industries Journal
- Vol. 8 (1) , 19-38
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02642068800000003
Abstract
The rise of services signifies the emergence of a new mode of production, through which services, manufacturing and the relationship between the two are transformed. Firms are developing high value-added production systems, by focusing on quality rather than cost, by vertically disintegrating production to limit their exposure, by training and retraining a core group of employees and by relying on temporary workers to complete rime-delimited projects. Presenting several examples of this new mode of production, the article outlines the new firm's human resources and training policies and examines the brooder obstacles to its development.Keywords
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