Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production
Subtitle: A Marxian Critique of the "New Economy" (S U N Y Series in Radical Social and Political Theory)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780791446003
Subjects: Political science & theory; Politics / Current Events; Marxian economics; Economics - Microeconomics; Business & Economics; Politics - Current Events; Philosophy; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; Political; Economics - General; Production (Economic theory); Capitalism; Employees; Labor
Description: "This book illustrates the continued value of Marxism as a method for analyzing contemporary capitalism, despite the new post-Fordist variant termed "lean production" that is spreading the globe. Characterized by knowledge work, lean production also includes the mass customization of commodities to consumer desires, and the close cooperation of firms within extended networks of production and distribution.

Its proponents argue that it can unite companies, workers, and consumers in the harmonious pursuit of common interests, thereby making the Marxian perspective hopelessly outdated. However, this book is the first to defend Marxian political economy against the claims made by lean production advocates."--BOOK JACKET.