Post-Fordism as Politics: The Political Consequences of Narratives on the Left
- 1 August 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
- Vol. 10 (4) , 393-410
- https://doi.org/10.1068/d100393
Abstract
In many theories of post-Fordism an epochal transition in capitalist societies is envisioned in which the industrial paradigm of mass production is replaced by flexible specialization. Often conjoined with this new model of industrial development are a post-Marxist politics and a postmodern culture, creating the impression of a grand economic and social realignment. It is argued that these holistic representations of industrialized social formations obscure the role of both capitalist and noncapitalist class processes in constituting contemporary societies and narrow the scope for political contestation and change.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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