Puzzling Out the Post-Fordist Debate: Technology, Markets and Institutions

Mark J. Elam
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Mark J. Elam: Universily of Linkoping

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 1990, vol. 11, issue 1, 9-37

Abstract: This paper is an attempt to unravel the post-Fordist debate. This is perceived as a recurrent debate about the future of capitalism which rages especially fiercely during periods of crisis and transition. Three different perspectives on post-Fordism are identified and explored, each one evolving out of a particular tradition within classical political economy and stressing different driving-forces behind the historical development of capitalism. An underlying theme within the paper is the existence of significantly contrasting views about the openness of the new phase of capitalist development: disagreement over whether post-Fordism is primarily about the inevitable diffusion of a pervasive new discipline or the formation of strategic initiatives and the making of history.

Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X90111002

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