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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Fordism"”.
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Regulation theory/Global Fordism and Peripheral Fordism: the case of Ireland
… the degree to which the theories of Global Fordism/Regulation in general and Peripheral Fordism in particular provide an adequate framework for an evaluation of the development of industrialisation in Ireland in that period. If they do provide an adequate framework, then to what extent do …
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The spatial organization of culture, economics and politics: The architecture and political economy of Fordism and global Fordism
Cultural Studies has developed a coherent set of analytical methods and political assumptions which are articulated to one another at the site of the text. The author disputes this articulation, arguing that in both method as well as assumption Cultural Studies duplicates early-modern political …
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By the Road: Fordism, Automobility, and Landscape Experience in the British Columbia Interior, 1920-1970
This dissertation examines how popular experiences of nature and history in the British Columbia Interior were structured by automobility – the system of objects, spaces, images, and practices that surrounded private automobiles and public roads. The Fordist state poured massive resources into the …
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Strategies of Resistance in Post-Fordism: A Feminist Performance Perspective, Over-identification with Benign Evil
… According to J.K. GibsonGraham post-Fordism is characterised by an unquestioned narrative of accumulation which ‘takes priority over other social processes, becoming an imperative of the social totality rather than simply an activity of firms’ (2006, p.158). My research investigates …
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An assessment of a quick response case study in an apparel textile pipeline in the Western Cape
… moved towards flexible specialisation and post-Fordism or a neo-Fordist method of production. I also determined whether these companies implemented Quick Response according to the theory or to suit their environment. Manufacturing 6 Fordism or mass production became the most important …
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Radical Turns From Gramsci To Negri. Life, Biopolitics And Social Change In Italy
… the Factory Councils faced the introduction of Fordism; 1968 and Marxist neo-feminism that of Fordism in its advanced phase of automation of production; the multitude of the Anti-Globalization Movement that of post-Fordism with its emphasis on immaterial production. If the biopolitical is today …
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Sustaining development in Detroit
… city of Detroit. It focuses primarily on Fordism as a type of modernist urbanism in which a powerful socio-economic agenda manipulated the growth of the city to that of a horizontal decentralization, dependent on the automobile. The design investigation develops and tests the thesis that a …
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O jornal E.T.V. (1943-1960) da Escola Técnica de Vitória/ ES: memórias acerca do projeto de disciplinamento para a educação profissional do Ifes
… to understanding how civism, Taylorism-Fordism, and discipline were incorporated into the school routine. Considering the institution's emergence in a context of transition between correctional-assistentialist education, characteristic of the Artisan Apprentice Schools, and the …
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Reading the Culture Wars in the New Academic Novel, 1984-Present
… of the gig economy and the transition to post-Fordism, I read these novels as demonstrating the use of neoliberal policies to pursue a new form of higher education that would better serve the needs of a neoliberal state. Ultimately, I suggest that these novels’ registering of otherwise hidden …
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Making change: The role of rhetoric in the politicization of consumption
… a theoretical framework and the concept of post-Fordism as a historical framework reveals the role of rhetoric in social and cultural production and reproduction and, more specifically, in redefining notions of "consumption" and "citizenship" in the contemporary U.S. This project concludes that, …
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Political Discourses of Idealised Masculinity: The Risk Management of Male Prisoners through Work, Education and Family Transitions
… and Neo-Marxist theorising around Post-Fordism, idealised masculinity represent a form of governance that the state employs to inform its programme of managing the risks posed by offenders. This is evident through two particular pathways to reduce re-offending. Namely Pathway Two …
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The politics of skill building in a global age
… strategies in the US (general skills and Fordism), Germany (industry-specific skills and diversified quality production) and Italy (tacit skills and industrial district production). Despite considerable differences, politicians and business leaders in all three countries have embraced …
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The lives of film: heritage, restoration, and the materialism of cinema
… and film restoration, and in the context of post-Fordism, that is, the post-industrialization of the global economy. I argue that this materialism, which centers on the conservation of celluloid as the material artifact of a fading era, points to significant new forms and functions of cinema. In …
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The restructuring of the motor vehicle manufacturing in South Africa : a case study of Nissan South Africa
… innovations which are widely contrasted with Fordism are not uniformly found amongst Japanese vehicle manufacturers. Globally, hybrids of the Fordist and post-Fordist paradigms are developing and, with reference to these hybrids, there are differences within countries as well as within the …
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Modernism and professionalism in American architecture, 1919-1933
… of Scientific Management, Technocracy, Fordism, and the nostrums of the 'New Era' and promised 'efficiency' in their work and in the industries they presumed to manage. It reveals that within these efforts of professional redefinition, the professional ideology supporting the architect's …
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Artistic practices & democratic politics: towards the markers of uncertainty: from counter-hegemonic positions to plural hegemonies
… social institutions. Neither politics nor post-Fordism should be considered through the matrix of culture, but in terms of hegemony. What is at issue is to grasp the nature of the democratic and aesthetical paradoxes and envisage how the two could be applied to contribute to progressive changes …
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Captured Desires: Neoliberalism from Below in Fujimori's Peru
… In the context of the conjunctural crisis of Fordism, when existing forms of capitalism were terminally delegitimised, elite neoliberals identified and exploited the working classes’ unmet desires for peace, progress and recognition. For some working-class people, neoliberalism came to seem …
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Global Extraction and Cultural Production: An Investigation of Forms of Extraction Through the Production of Artist-Video
This research is a practice-based, theory-led, examination of forms of extraction under capitalism. The thesis addresses the question of where and how does extraction take place, both in and outside of the wage relationship. Directly employing Marx’s concept of surplus extraction, but further …
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Pocket Monsters And Pirate Treasure: Fantasy And Social Platforms In The 21st Century
POCKET MONSTERS AND PIRATE TREASURE: FANTASY AND SOCIAL PLATFORMS IN THE 21ST CENTURY is an anthropology project examining media, fantasy, ideology, and social groups in order to build a better foundation for the ways in which economic and social changes influence social networking, popular media, …
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Work in Motion: Labour and Aesthetic Production in the Animated Film Industry
Diagramming the intersection between the representation of work and the work of representation, this thesis explores how animation has historically mediated technological transformations in film production through its self-reflexive engagement with labour. I track the entanglement between animated …
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