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 capitalisma s newest age.

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 capitalisma s newest age. This book provides a superb introduction to these debates and their far--reaching implications, and includes key texts by post--Fordisma s major theorists and commentators.

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 a Post--Fordista
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 a Post--Modernisma
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.