Discuss Differences Between Fordism and Post-Fordism Work In 1913‚ Henry Ford had an assembly line built in his Detroit plant where T-Ford cars were manufactured. This marked the beginning of a new era in production called Fordism. It was a pattern of industrial organisation and employment policy that occurred in the early twentieth century. Its high point was the period after the Second World War. This essay will be describing the main principles of Fordism‚ post-Fordism‚ their advantages and limitations
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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
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POST FORDISM During 1970s and 1980s Fordism system started being challenged by new kind of work organisation Fordism principles- fragmented work‚ dedicated machinery‚ serial‚ rather than parallel task‚ task sequencing create enormous economic off scale but have one crucial weakness namely inflexibility. During 1970-80s‚ the mass market which stabilised the Fordist system was breaking up. Sabel argued that this had come about because of a number of global changes‚ but the chief factor is the changing
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“With reference to a dualism of your choice (e.g.‚ bureaucracy/post-bureaucracy‚ Fordism/post-Fordism‚ hard HRM/soft HRM)‚ evaluate critically its validity as a tool for understanding the changing nature of work organisation” Introduction The definition of work is “ the application of effort or exertion to a purpose‚” (Noon & Blyton 2002‚ p3) Though this does provide a reasonable definition a clearer one can be provided by Thomas (1999‚ xiv) who highlights three essential components to work:
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Fordism‚ it refers to the mass production of standardized goods using assembly line technology‚ involving few skills and repetitive work by employees. ‘Each company was composed of many different specialized departments‚ each producing components and parts that were eventually channeled towards the moving line for final assembly.’(Cohen & Kennedy 2007: 95 ) For instance‚ in 1900‚ there were 18 million horses‚ but only 8‚000 cars in America. For local people‚ car just was a bulky and expensive
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Implications for Researching the Organisation [a] Post Fordism? i) The 1980s: Flexible Specialisation and ’Disorganised Capitalism’: Piore and Sabel (1984) argue in The Second Industrial Divide[i] that new production systems must orientate towards multi-skilling and rapid re-skilling in order to accommodate the search for shifting and newly forming niche markets in a post mass production/mass consumer world. This implies economies of scope rather than economies of scale and a more creative
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Post Fordism is an industrial model that replace Fordism model in 1970. It is a production model which is closely associated with socioeconomic system used in most industrialized countries. Unlike Fordism which was used by Henry Ford’s plant where workers worked in a production line with each person performing specialized task in a repetitive manner‚ Post-Fordism is characterized by the use of new information technology with the coming of the globalize financial market. From this model‚ I have learned
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Notes on post-Fordism and postmodernism Post-Fordism and Postmoderism: Capitalism requires a large number of low-skilled workers willing to put up with alienating‚ repetitive work on mass production assembly lines. This system is often called Fordism because the Ford motor company was the first to introduce this. Bowles and Gintis’ correspondence principle states that school mirrors the work place‚ and see the mass education system as preparing pupils to accept this kind of work. Postmodernists argue
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Definitions of Fordism are varied‚ numerous and at times conflicting. This essay discusses which features are pertinent to and uniquely defining of Fordism rather than Taylorism‚ Sloanism‚ Toyotism or any other socio-economic policy with which it may have become intertwined. While many of these -isms share characteristics‚ this essay will try to distinguish which were distinctly Fordist and how they shaped the revolution in terms of management and organisation and ultimately society. Also discussed
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