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Discuss the differences between Fordist and Post-fordist work?
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Discuss the differences between Fordist and Post-fordist work? The question invites us to discuss the differences between fordism and post fordism. Fordism is way in which production is organised in "high period of industrial manufactures in the C20th and early 1970s" [1] and is mainly mass production. Post Fordism is due to the emergence of cultural and economic changes it's more of specialisation in products rather then mass production of fordism. I will go through and look at the differences between fordism and post fordism and then I will conclude whether a difference actually exists. Fordism was derived from the Henry Ford away from skilled, craft production to mass production. Ford didn't invent mass consumption but he realised it meant that new forms of modern psychology and labour management. This help to create new markets due to economies of scale and large organizations build upon functional specialization and divisions of labour. The...
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