Ash Amin 
Post-Fordism [EPUB ebook] 
A Reader

Part analysis of contemporary change and part vision of the future, post-Fordism lends its name to a set of challenging, essential and controversial debates over the nature of capitalism’s newest age. This book provides a superb introduction to these debates and their far-reaching implications, and includes key texts by post-Fordism’s major theorists and commentators.

Table of Content

List of Contributors.

Acknowledgements.

1. Post-Fordism: Models, Fantasies and Phantoms of Transition:
Ash Amin (University of Newcastle).

Part I: New Macroeconomic Designs:.

2. Puzzling out the Post-Fordist Debate: Technology, Markets and
Institutions: Mark Elam (Linkoping University).

3. The Crisis of Fordism and the Dimensions of a ‘Post-Fordist’
Regional and Urban Structure: Josef Esser (Goethe University,
Germany) and Joachim Hirsch (Goethe University, Germany).

Part II: New Sociologies and Geographies of Industrial
Organisation: .

4. Flexible Specialisation and the Re-emergence of Regional
Economies: Charles F. Sabel (MIT, USA).

5. A New Paradigm of Work Organization and Technology: John
Tomaney (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne).

6. The Transition to Flexible Specialization in the US Film
Industry: External Economies, the Division of Labour and the
Crossing of Industrial Divides: Michael Storper (University of
California, Los Angeles, USA).

7. Competing Structural and Institutional Influences on the
Geography of Production in Europe: Ash Amin (University of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne) and Anders Malmberg (Uppsala University,
Sweden).

Part III: Policy and Politics Beyond Fordism:.

8. Post-Fordism and the State: Bob Jessop (Lancaster
University).

9. Searching for a New Institutional Fix: The
After-Fordist crisis and Global-local Disorder: Jamie Peck
(Manchester University) and Adam Tickel (Leeds University).

10. Post-Fordist City Politics: Margit Mayer (Free University of
Berlin, Germany).

11. Post-Fordism and Democracy: Alain Lipietz (CEPREMAP, Paris,
France).

Part IV: Post-Fordist City Lives and Lifestyles:.

12. Flexible Accumulation through Urbanization: Reflections on
‘Post-Modernism’ in the American City: David Harvey (Johns Hopkins
University).

13. City Cultures and Postmodern Lifestyles: Mike Featherstone
(Teeside University).

14. The Fortress City: Privatized Spaces, Consumer Citizenship:
Susan Christopherson (Cornell University, USA).

Index.

About the author

Ash Amin works in the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. He is the editor, most recently, of Globalisation, Institutions and Regional Development in Europe (with Nigel Thrift).