Two Forms of Post-Fordism

Abstract After Fordism came … post-Fordism. The latter is not a very revealing handle, but there are reasons for this. One is that we are still in the post-Fordist period, and it is always hazardous to make generalizations about one’s own age; all that I need to say about that I’ve already said in Chapter 3, with reference there to “globalization.” Another is that there is reason to believe that, in the aftermath of Fordism, the economic institutions and production systems of industrial countries in fact became more diverse; thus, there is no one post-Fordism but, in a way that would delight a postmodernist, many post-Fordisms.