Post-Fordism: 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.

Content:
Chapter 1 Post?Fordism: Models, Fantasies and Phantoms of Transition (pages 1–39): Ash Amin
Chapter 2 Puzzling Out the Post?Fordist Debate: Technology, Markets and Institutions (pages 43–70): Mark Elam
Chapter 3 The Crisis of Fordism and the Dimensions of a ‘Post?Fordist’ Regional and Urban Structure (pages 71–97): Josef Esser and Joachim Hirsch
Chapter 4 Flexible Specialisation and the Re?Emergence of Regional Economies (pages 101–156): Charles F. Sabel
Chapter 5 A New Paradigm of Work Organization and Technology? (pages 157–194): John Tomaney
Chapter 6 The Transition to Flexible Specialisation in the US Film Industry: External Economies, the Division of Labour and the Crossing of Industrial Divides (pages 195–226): Michael Storper
Chapter 7 Competing Structural and Institutional Influences on the Geography of Production in Europe (pages 227–248): Ash Amin and Anders Malmberg
Chapter 8 Post?Fordism and the State (pages 251–279): Bob Jessop
Chapter 9 Searching for a New Institutional Fix: The After?Fordist Crisis and the Global?Local Disorder (pages 280–315): Jamie Peck and Adam Tickell
Chapter 10 Post?Fordist City Politics (pages 316–337): Margit Mayer
Chapter 11 Post?Fordism and Democracy (pages 338–357): Alain Lipietz
Chapter 12 Flexible Accumulation Through Urbanization: Reflections on ‘Post?Modernism’ in the American City (pages 361–386): David Harvey
Chapter 13 City Cultures and Post?Modern Lifestyles (pages 387–408): Mike Featherstone
Chapter 14 The Fortress City: Privatized Spaces, Consumer Citizenship (pages 409–427): Susan Christopherson