the contemporary globalization which is based on post-fordist economy, was formed on the basis of informational capitalism, and has been differentiated from other concepts due to some characteristics like information economy, global economy, and network economic activities.     the characteristics of post-fordist economy create a situation where capitals and productions are changed from place-...

The evolution of the “post-Fordist” economy is alleged to have changed the structure of work careers in the American work force of the 1990s. Most scholarly attention has focused on the implications of post-Fordism for job mobility or for the fraction of the workforce that has a “contingent” employment relationship with the employer. But post-Fordism should also affect the relationship between ...

In the 1990s Knowledge Management originated as a post-Fordist, information society, discourse that stressed the socio-technical ‘capture’ and distribution of knowledge as a sharable, information resource. Following a postindustrial model, the information/knowledge economy was seen as the leading productive sector. Today’s networked systems mix information processing and 1 The article is an exp...

Since the early 1980s, the core capitalist economies of North America and Western Europe have undergone fundamental transformations in their political-economic constitution and socio-spatial organization. In economic geography, these massive transformations have been described variously through such concepts as the “new industrial divide/space”, “cultural/symbolic economy”, “regional innovation...

The shift away from mass production industries to new informationintensive industries is leading to speculation on what will supersede the Fordist model of industrial organization. This article outlines alternative models advanced as potential replacement for Fordism, and presents a new post-Fordist future, based upon exploration of the post-war evolution of Japan. Fujitsuism is posed as a pote...

One of the turning points in India’s recent trajectory has been the liberalization of the Indian economy in response to neoliberal compulsions, which thrives on free-market regime and involves the encounter of the local with the global capital (Ramaswamy 1999; Stiglitz 2004). Briefly, the change has been from an earlier state-controlled and relatively more job-secure environment to a gradual wi...

This paper adopts a regulation framework to chart the emergence of neo-Fordism as a flexible accumulation regime and mode of social regulation. Neo-Fordism relies on old Fordist principles as well as incorporating new models of emergent post-Fordisms; old and new social relationships, in their particular combination, specify the trajectory of national variants. I argue that Fordist bargains ins...

The Ministry of Sound, which started life as a London club less than ten years ago, by 2002 had the largest global dance record label and the most popular music website in the world, and published the UK's fastest growing music magazine, Ministry. It now promotes club events around the globe and broadcasts its radio show on 50 stations in 32 countries, thus becoming the world's most famous danc...