Critically discuss how the conceptual framework of Fordism and/or Post-Fordism illuminates your understanding of social relations in the workplace: Draw upon your own experience and that of a worker you have interviewed, to illustrate your answer.
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Work & Social Change SO211A Student No 0012286 Critically discuss how the conceptual framework of Fordism and/or Post-Fordism illuminates your understanding of social relations in the workplace: Draw upon your own experience and that of a worker you have interviewed, to illustrate your answer. This essay will be examining the conceptual framework of both Fordism and Post Fordism alike. It will be examining how Fordism began, and how through many different changes both within the industrial sector as well as Society as a whole, there was a switch to Post Fordism. It will incorporate my own experiences of working in retail, in order to demonstrate how I perceive the way in which Post Fordism is evident in the workplace. In addition to demonstrating that Fordism has not been totally replaced and still is present, in more ways than one. Fordism refers to the system of consumption and mass production characteristic of highly developed economies during...


