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Patricia W. Curmi Introduction to Sociology SP1130C Seminar Tutor: U. Wolski Date due: 20.01.03 To what extent are we moving form Fordist to Post-Fordist production? Work and employment have become areas of society that sociologists have become increasingly more focused on. The growing interest is a direct consequence of the realisation that occupation is closely related to social status, class position and many other important issues in both cause and effect. The change from an agricultural society, to an industrial and, as some argue, a post-industrial one has had lasting effects on all types of industry. It has also changed the expectations we as consumers have of both the production and service industries. Fordist production, or Fordism, has had one of the greatest influences on methods and means of production of all industrial movements, with its ideas still permeating concepts of management and factory layouts. Although its is bound almost inevitably with both industrialism and, more...

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