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Critically evaluate whether we live in a Fordist, Neo-Fordist or Post-Fordist society.
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Critically evaluate whether we live in a Fordist, Neo-Fordist or Post-Fordist society. When the new black Model-T came off the assembly line and started in Ford's plant in Highland Park (Detroit) 90 years ago, the human industrial society began to change. Looking the same as any previous models, this Model-T was built only in one and a half hours. The saved ninety percent of labour hour rapidly led to 'The First Industrial Divide' of the western world. Even today, how deeply this industrial revolution, the so-called Fordism, had actually affected our society is still a controversial topic. In what following, an analysis of Fordism and Post-Fordism will be conducted concerning both current and historical examples as well as some classical arguments, in order to identify the society we are living in. When referring to the term Fordism, the frame of monotonous and simple jobs, standardized single products, intense industrial relations will occur...
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