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Denis Gleeson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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in the public interest post compulsory education in a postmodern age
Journal of Education Policy, 1996Co-Authors: Denis GleesonAbstract:With mass post‐compulsory education and training now coming on stream the question arises, whose interests does it serve? In addressing this question this paper examines aspects of the recent expansion of Post‐Compulsory Education and Training (PCET). It explores various ways in which a market, credit and contract culture find expression in the fast changing arrangements of Post‐16 Education Policy in the UK, and whether this reflects a transition from a Fordist to a post‐Fordist learning society. In looking at what sense can be made of this transition, the paper reflects on why the post‐Fordist ideal translates into the neo‐Fordist nightmare, and what can be done about it. It is argued that it is one thing to employ a post‐Fordist or post‐modern analysis of contingency and diversity in education, and quite another to confuse such analysis with the onset of a new post‐industrial order, at least in the UK. Drawing on earlier collaborative work with colleagues (Avis et al. 1996) this paper looks toward a fo...
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In the public interest: post‐compulsory education in a postmodern age
Journal of Education Policy, 1996Co-Authors: Denis GleesonAbstract:With mass post‐compulsory education and training now coming on stream the question arises, whose interests does it serve? In addressing this question this paper examines aspects of the recent expansion of Post‐Compulsory Education and Training (PCET). It explores various ways in which a market, credit and contract culture find expression in the fast changing arrangements of Post‐16 Education Policy in the UK, and whether this reflects a transition from a Fordist to a post‐Fordist learning society. In looking at what sense can be made of this transition, the paper reflects on why the post‐Fordist ideal translates into the neo‐Fordist nightmare, and what can be done about it. It is argued that it is one thing to employ a post‐Fordist or post‐modern analysis of contingency and diversity in education, and quite another to confuse such analysis with the onset of a new post‐industrial order, at least in the UK. Drawing on earlier collaborative work with colleagues (Avis et al. 1996) this paper looks toward a fo...
James Avis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Post-Fordist Illusions: knowledge-based economies and transformation
Power and Education, 2013Co-Authors: James AvisAbstract:The argument that Post-Fordism was able to overcome the oppressions and exploitations embedded within Fordist work relations has been subject to extensive critique for its evasion of capitalist antagonisms. However, there are particular analytic currents in radical thought which assert that knowledge-based economies hold within them not only radical, but also transformative possibilities. Such possibilities flow from developments in the forces of production and changes in the way in which surplus value is generated. These arguments tend to be located within what could be described as the knowledge economy as well as the creative industries. This article seeks to interrogate these arguments and suggests that, as with earlier discussions of Post-Fordism, they are amenable to capitalist appropriation.
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im possible dream post fordism stakeholding and post compulsory education
Journal of Education Policy, 1998Co-Authors: James AvisAbstract:This paper explores the new conditions and ideational framework within which post‐compulsory education and training is placed in England and Wales. It does so by examining the impact of ideas derived from post‐Fordist analyses and stakeholding theory as well as the arguments put forward by left modernizers. It seeks to consider the limits and possibilities that surround these ideas which have provided a new inflection or accenting of educational policy. This accenting connects a concern with social inclusion and cohesion to global competitiveness. The paper concludes by suggesting that the project of left modernizers is seriously compromised through its entrapment within a capitalist logic, but that nevertheless the potential for struggle remains within the contradictions of the discourse and rhetoric surrounding educational policy.
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(Im)possible dream: post‐Fordism, stakeholding and post‐compulsory education
Journal of Education Policy, 1998Co-Authors: James AvisAbstract:This paper explores the new conditions and ideational framework within which post‐compulsory education and training is placed in England and Wales. It does so by examining the impact of ideas derived from post‐Fordist analyses and stakeholding theory as well as the arguments put forward by left modernizers. It seeks to consider the limits and possibilities that surround these ideas which have provided a new inflection or accenting of educational policy. This accenting connects a concern with social inclusion and cohesion to global competitiveness. The paper concludes by suggesting that the project of left modernizers is seriously compromised through its entrapment within a capitalist logic, but that nevertheless the potential for struggle remains within the contradictions of the discourse and rhetoric surrounding educational policy.
Ian Hampson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Fordism of Ford and Modern Management: Fordism and Post-Fordism [Book Review]
2007Co-Authors: Ian HampsonAbstract:Review(s) of: The Fordism of Ford and Modern Management: Fordism and Post-Fordism, H Beynon and T Nichols (eds), Elgar Reference Collection, Cheltenham, Two Volumes, Vol. 1 485 pages, Vol. 2 585 pages, 295, (hardcover). Includes Reference.
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Post-Fordism and the politics of industry development in Australia
1994Co-Authors: Ian HampsonAbstract:Post-Fordism suggests the world's economic travails are the birth-pangs of a new, post- Fordist industrial system, with implications for national industrial adjustment. The thesis is a study of Post-Fordism and the course of the recent industrial policy debate in Australia. It is also a critique of Post-Fordism (and its sister doctrine 'flexible specialisation'), as an analysis of events in the world economy, and as a model of industrial development. The thesis focuses on the role and fate of the labour movement, in the recent industrial policy debate, for two reasons. First, the labour movement drove the debate over industry policy in the early 1980s, and second, post- Fordism offers misleading prescriptions for the role the labour movement should play in industrial adjustment. Part one is devoted to exposition and critique of Post-Fordism; part two surveys some of the literature on industry development and work organisation, with the question of the roles of the state and the labour movement in mind; part three is devoted to the debates in Australia around industry policy and Post-Fordism. The thesis argues that Post-Fordism is a flawed account of recent industrial change, and a poor guide to labour movement strategy. It suggests that the union movement's flirtation with enterprise ...i gaining and certain hostile forms of work organisation is, in some measure, due to strategic miscalculations deriving from the influence of Post-Fordism.
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Post-Fordism and Workplace Change: Towards a Critical Research Agenda
Journal of Industrial Relations, 1994Co-Authors: Ian Hampson, Peter Ewer, Meg SmithAbstract:Despite the well-developed academic critique, in particular that directed against the work of John Mathews, Post-Fordism is still an influential account of workplace change. This is interesting and serious. Interesting, because it raises the question of how a discredited doctrine remains influential in the teeth of intense academic criticism. Serious, because Post-Fordism propagates an image of workplace change that could confuse the deliberations of those vitally affected by the latter. This article identifies three incompatible positions on the nature of post-Fordist work organization within the work of Mathews. We argue that Post-Fordism. in particu lar the work of Mathews, fails to distinguish favourable from unfavourable (for workers) forms of work organization, misreads developments in management strategy, and neglects the gender dimension of workplace change. Accordingly we counterpose a critical research agenda to that suggested by Mathews. We attempt, hesitantly, to take the debate towards a soci...
Steven P. Vallas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Rethinking Post-Fordism: The Meaning of Workplace Flexibility
Sociological Theory, 1999Co-Authors: Steven P. VallasAbstract:Social scientists increasingly claim that work structures based on the mass production or “Fordist” paradigm have grown obsolete, giving way to a more flexible, “post-Fordist” structure of work. These claims have been much disputed, however, giving rise to a sharply polarized debate over the outcome of workplace restructuring. I seek to reorient the debate by subjecting the post-Fordist approach to theoretical and empirical critique. Several theoretical weaknesses internal to the post-Fordist approach are identified, including its uncertain handling of “power” and “efficiency” as factors that shape work organizations; its failure to acknowledge multiple responses to the crisis of Fordism, several of which seem at odds with the post-Fordist paradigm; and its tendency to neglect the resurgence of economic dualism and disparity within organizations and industries. Review of the empirical literature suggests that, despite scattered support for the post-Fordist approach, important anomalies exist (such as the growing authority of “mental” over manual labor) that Post-Fordism seems powerless to explain. In spite of its ample contributions, post-Fordist theory provides a seriously distorted guide to the nature of workplace change in the United States. Two alternative perspectives toward the restructuring of work organizations are sketched—neoinstitutionalist and “flexible accumulation” models—which seem likely to inspire more fruitful lines of research on the disparate patterns currently unfolding within American work organizations.
Mary Rayner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Curious Case of Post-Fordism and Welfare
Journal of Social Policy, 1996Co-Authors: John Carter, Mary RaynerAbstract:AbstractThe post-Fordist welfare state thesis is premised upon the economic and technological changes seen in Britain and elsewhere over the last twenty-five years. Its regulationist variant though goes further and locates welfare shifts within a broader account of the transformed accumulation regime. This amounts to a useful intellectual framework within which to consider social policy developments.This article however, argues that the post-Fordist case is ultimately misleading as it works with an overly restrictive picture of welfare and pays insufficient attention to non-class social divisions. It overemphasises historical disjunctures in the development of welfare and in doing so misses important areas of continuity. This is compounded by a linked tendency to assume rather than demonstrate the actual transformation of the various services. The evidence from education provides only limited support for the predictive aspects of the model. It also confirms the need for sensitive causal accounts of welfare change.