In an attempt to make sense of changes that have taken place in the workplace worldwide, especially since the last quarter of the twentieth century, the two concepts of Fordism and Post-Fordism are often invoked. These volumes perform a valuable service to social scientists in bringing together important previously published contributions which explore this field.
In their selection of articles, the editors range from the Fordism of Henry Ford to its oft-touted modern management successors âeuros" Japanisation and Toyotaism, flexible specialisation, lean production and McDonaldisation. They also provide useful criticisms of each of these developments.
The editors have written an authoritative introduction which offers an informative discussion of the issues.
Volume I
Acknowledgements
Introduction Huw Beynon and Theo Nichols
PART I THE FORDISM OF FORD
1. Christian Palloix (1976), 'The Labour Process: From Fordism to Neo-Fordism, [Translated by John Mepham and Mike Sonenscher]
2. Carl H.A. Dassbach (1991), 'The Origins of Fordism: The Introduction of Mass Production and the Five-Dollar Wage
3. David Roediger (1988), 'Americanism and Fordism - American Style: Kate Richards OHares 'Has Henry Ford Made Good?'
4. James M. Wilson (1995), 'Henry Fords Just-in-Time System
5. Glen Norcliffe (1997), 'Popeism and Fordism: Examining the Roots of Mass Production
6. Karel Williams, Colin Haslam and John Williams (1992), 'Ford versus 'Fordism': The Beginning of Mass Production?
7. John Bellamy Foster (1989), 'The Fetish of Fordism
8. R. Hudson (1989), 'Labour-Market Changes and New Forms of Work in Old Industrial Regions: Maybe Flexibility for Some but Not Flexible Accumulation
9. Robin Murray (1988), 'Life after Henry (Ford)
10. Ian McIntosh (1995), ''It Was Worse Than Alcatraz': Working for Ford at Trafford Park
PART II JAPANISATION AND TOYOTAISM
11. Knuth Dohse, Ulrich Jürgens and Thomas Malsch (1985), 'From 'Fordism' to 'Toyotism'? The Social Organization of Labor Process in the Japanese Automobile Industry
12. Stephen Wood (1993), 'The Japanization of Fordism
13. Roland Springer (1999), 'The End of New Production Concepts? Rationalization and Labour Policy in the German Auto Industry
14. Adrian Wilkinson, Graham Godfrey and Mick Marchington (1997), 'Bouquets, Brickbats and Blinkers: Total Quality Management and Employee Involvement in Practice
15. Theo Nichols, Nadir Sugur and Erol Demir (2002), 'Globalised Management and Local Labour: The Case of the White-Goods Industry in Turkey
16. Rick Delbridge (1995), 'Surviving JIT: Control and Resistance in a Japanese Transplant
17. Paul E. Rossler and Mario G. Beruvides (1994), 'Management Theory Déjà Vu? Scientific and Total Quality Management
18. David M. Boje and Robert D. Winsor (1993), 'The Resurrection of Taylorism: Total Quality Managements Hidden Agenda
19. Andrew Sayer (1989), 'Postfordism in Question
20. Valeria Pulignano (2001), 'Just-in-Time and Social Relations in the Auto-Component Industry
21. Peter Turnbull, Nick Oliver and Barry Wilkinson (1989), 'Recent Developments in the UK Automotive Industry: JIT/TQC and Information Systems
22. Terry L. Besser (1993), 'The Commitment of Japanese Workers and U.S. Workers: A Reassessment of the Literature
23. Robert E. Cole, Arne L. Kalleberg and James R. Lincoln (1993), 'Assessing Commitment in the United States and Japan: A Comment on Besser
24. Egil Skorstad (1994), 'Lean Production, Conditions of Work and Worker Commitment
25. Paul S. Adler, Barbara Goldoftas and David I. Levine (1997), 'Ergonomics, Employee Involvement, and the Toyota Production System: A Case Study of NUMMIs 1993 Model Introduction
26. Katsuo Nishiyama and Jeffrey V. Johnson (1997), 'Karoshi - Death from Overwork: Occupational Health Consequences of Japanese Production Management
Name Index
Volume II
Acknowledgements
An introduction by the editors to both volumes appears in Volume I
PART I FLEXIBLE SPECIALISATION, THE THIRD ITALY AND THE WIDER DEBATE
1. Fergus Murray (1983), 'The Decentralisation of Production - the Decline of the Mass-Collective Worker?
2. Fergus Murray (1987), 'Flexible Specialisation in the 'Third Italy'
3. Ash Amin (1989), 'Flexible Specialisation and Small Firms in Italy: Myths and Realities
4. Chris Smith (1989), 'Flexible Specialisation: Automation and Mass Production
5. John Tomaney (1990), 'The Reality of Workplace Flexibility
6. Harley Shaiken, Stephen Herzenberg and Sarah Kuhn (1986), 'The Work Process Under More Flexible Production
7. Bruce Pietrykowski (1999), 'Beyond the Fordist/Post-Fordist Dichotomy: Working through The Second Industrial Divide
8. Steven P. Vallas and John P. Beck (1996), 'The Transformation of Work Revisited: The Limits of Flexibility in American Manufacturing
9. Steven P. Vallas (1999), 'Rethinking Post-Fordism: The Meaning of Workplace Flexibility
10. Anna Pollert (1988), 'Dismantling Flexibility
11. Thomas Bramble (1988), 'The Flexibility Debate: Industrial Relations and New Management Production Practices
12. Paul Hirst and Johnathan Zeitlin (1991), 'Flexible Specialization versus post-Fordism: Theory, Evidence and Policy Implications
13. Karel Williams, Tony Cutler, John Williams and Colin Haslam (1987), 'The End of Mass Production?
PART II LEAN PRODUCTION
14. Christian Berggren (1993), 'Lean Production - The End of History?
15. Ian Hampson (1999), 'Lean Production and the Toyota Production System - Or, the Case of the Forgotten Production Concepts
16. Michael A. Cusumano (1994), 'The Limits of 'Lean'
17. Mike Parker and Jane Slaughter (1990), 'Management-by-Stress: The Team Concept in the US Auto Industry
18. James P. Womack (1996), 'The Psychology of Lean Production
19. James Rinehart (1999), 'The International Motor Vehicle Programs Lean Production Benchmark: A Critique
20. Ben Dankbaar (1997), 'Lean Production: Denial, Confirmation or Extension of Sociotechnical Systems Design?
21. Andy Danford (2003), 'Workers, Unions and the High Performance Workplace
PART III McDONALDISATION
22. George Ritzer (1996), 'The McDonaldization Thesis: Is Expansion Inevitable?
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