New Technologies, Flexible Work Practices, and Regional Sociospatial Differentiation: Some Observations from the United Kingdom
- 1 September 1988
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
- Vol. 6 (3) , 301-319
- https://doi.org/10.1068/d060301
Abstract
Changes in production in the 1980s from Fordist to post-Fordist or flexible accumulation strategies are analyzed. After a discussion of the rise of the ‘flexible firm’, empirical evidence is drawn from the United Kingdom, and possible sociospatial scenarios that may arise from these changes are discussed.Keywords
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