A Fossil Energy Regime

Max Koch
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Max Koch: Lund University

Chapter 7 in Capitalism and Climate Change, 2012, pp 76-86 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The material and energy aspect of the Fordist production and consumption model has not hitherto been in the focus of research. However, in the 1970s, Aglietta (1987, p. 118) had already proposed that a necessary condition for the success of the Fordist growth strategy was a revolution in energy which generalized the industrial use of energy and made possible the construction of high capacity motors which enormously increased the power available in industry. In this way, the labour process could be converted from a dense network of relationships between jobs, with intermediate products passing back and forth, and trial and error in the case of assembly, into a straightforward linear flow of the material under transformation.

Keywords: International Energy Agency; International Energy Agency; Fossil Resource; Capita Emission; World Resource Institute (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230355088_8

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