Not Flexible Accumulation—Contradictions of Value in Contemporary Economic Geography: 1. Workplace and Interfirm Relations

J Gough
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J Gough: Department of Geography, University of Sydney, Institute Building HO3, Sydney, NSW 2206, Australia

Environment and Planning A, 1996, vol. 28, issue 11, 2063-2079

Abstract: In this and a subsequent paper, work by geographers that is based on the idea that we are in a period of transition to an epoch of flexible accumulation, or post-Fordism, is examined. It is argued that this thesis relies on abstracting the technical and organisational aspects of current restructuring from its value relations. An account which includes value relations shows that the phenomena said to characterise flexible accumulation are more contradictory and unstable, more varied, and more open to struggle than is supposed in work in which a new epoch is assumed. An approach based on value relations can give a richer account of current spatial-economic change. In this first paper, capital—labour relations within production, and the relations between firms are discussed.

Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1068/a282063

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