page_title: Fordism
section_title: Post-Fordism
hierarchical_section_title: Fordism / Post-Fordism
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context_page_description: Fordism is the basis of modern economic and social systems in industrialized, standardized mass production and mass consumption. The concept is named for Henry Ford. It is used in social, economic, and management theory about production, working conditions, consumption, and related phenomena, especially regarding the 20th century. It describes an ideology of advanced capitalism centered around the American socioeconomic systems in place in the post-war economic boom.
context_section_description: The period after Fordism has been termed Post-Fordist and Neo-Fordist. The former implies that global capitalism has made a clean break from Fordism, including overcoming its inconsistencies, but the latter implies that elements of the Fordist ROA continued to exist. The Regulation School preferred the term After-Fordism (or the French Après-Fordisme) to denote that what comes after Fordism was or is not clear.
  In Post-Fordist economies:
  New information technologies are important.
  Products are marketed to niche markets rather than in mass consumption patterns based on social class.
  Service industries predominate over manufacturing.
  The workforce is feminized.
  Financial markets are globalized.
  White collar, creativity is needed
  Workers do not stay in one job for their whole life
  'Just-in-time' systems in which products are manufactured after orders are placed
caption: Information technology, white-collar work, and specialization are some of the attributes of post-Fordism.
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