New Technology and Neo-Fordism

Phil Blackburn, Rod Coombs and Kenneth Green

Chapter 5 in Technology, Economic Growth and the Labour Process, 1985, pp 88-107 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In Chapter 3 we considered the central role of Fordism in the post-war upswing. Fordism, characterised by a technological paradigm of the high-volume production of standardised products, gained its efficiency by means of an acute division of labour along with the use of specialised machinery ‘dedicated’ to the production of long runs. But as we and others have argued, with increasing competition between firms, the effects of the generalisation of collective bargaining on wage costs and limitations to the exploitation of economies of scale, the potential for further extension and deepening of Fordism, at least within developed countries, has progressively diminished.

Keywords: Assembly Line; Work Role; Work Organisation; Labour Process; Core Process (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-07517-1_5

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