Post Fordism
Capital & Class 9 ó means, first, that the author overemphasises politics and political agency in the determination of European integration, failing to anchor this analysis in a broader appreciation of economic and political structures and the dynamics of international capital accumulation as well as in more deeprooted political processes. Consequently, there is a tendency to over-identify core structural processes such as globalisation and European integration itself, with specific political agents
(especially the USA) and projects. For example, contemporary EU integration is simply identified with a US and global elitesponsored project of transnational neoliberalism. Hence no attempt is made to
critically interrogate the relationship between integration as such, as form, and neoliberal integration as a particular contentisation of integrational structures. In short, Mullen 's study, in common with many other neoGramscian analyses of the efficacy of
European integration for the left, essentialises neoliberalism into core aspects of integration as such, thereby foreclosing positive left engagement with the contemporary EU project. These are clearly issues for fundamental theoretical debate with implications for an understanding of the left and Europe. It is a failing of Mullen 's otherwise commendable study that such debate is studiously avoided.
Huw Beynon and Theo Nichols (eds.)
Patterns of Work ¡n the Post-Fordist Ero:
Fordism and Post-Fordism
Edgar Elgar, 2006. Vol. 1:494 pp.; Vol. II: 645 pp
ISBN: 978-1-84542-324 7 (hbk) £285
reviewed by Sheila Cohen
Work, it seems, has been 'rediscovered ' via the 'flexible production model '. According to one contribution to this two-volume collection on new management techniques like 'just in time ' (JIT) and 'total quality management ' (TQM) have 'given labor a central role. The "rediscovery" of labor is a key element in initiatives in many countries to reorganise
(especially the USA) and projects. For example, contemporary EU integration is simply identified with a US and global elitesponsored project of transnational neoliberalism. Hence no attempt is made to
critically interrogate the relationship between integration as such, as form, and neoliberal integration as a particular contentisation of integrational structures. In short, Mullen 's study, in common with many other neoGramscian analyses of the efficacy of
European integration for the left, essentialises neoliberalism into core aspects of integration as such, thereby foreclosing positive left engagement with the contemporary EU project. These are clearly issues for fundamental theoretical debate with implications for an understanding of the left and Europe. It is a failing of Mullen 's otherwise commendable study that such debate is studiously avoided.
Huw Beynon and Theo Nichols (eds.)
Patterns of Work ¡n the Post-Fordist Ero:
Fordism and Post-Fordism
Edgar Elgar, 2006. Vol. 1:494 pp.; Vol. II: 645 pp
ISBN: 978-1-84542-324 7 (hbk) £285
reviewed by Sheila Cohen
Work, it seems, has been 'rediscovered ' via the 'flexible production model '. According to one contribution to this two-volume collection on new management techniques like 'just in time ' (JIT) and 'total quality management ' (TQM) have 'given labor a central role. The "rediscovery" of labor is a key element in initiatives in many countries to reorganise
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