Fordist Characteristics of an Active Mill

As Leming life, this is what my father called 'personality building experience'. In front of me, at the OSB factory at Dawson Creek, I would be one of the five girls (and the only girl with a female statue) There were four months awful months, they are 230 people . Bulky countrymen work in the middle. This plant is a 400 meter long concrete building with wooden pieces on one side and a neat box on the other side. The factory is a typical Ford factory, a successful mass production process. This is a factory full of labor union bureaucracy, repetitive work, production lines, well-defined main and subordinate workers.

"Flexibility" and "autonomy" are characteristics of skilled craftsmen, and it is told that it is certainly an obstacle to the socialization of Fordism's production. It may not be skilled within the prescribed time. Therefore, workers tend to resist the "failure" of labor processes and the destruction of trade unions is a prerequisite for perfectionistic perfectionism of capitalism. However, this is not a requirement imposed by technology, regardless of whether it is 'Ford' or not.

The era after Fordism is often called Post Fordist and New Ford. Postford doctrine means that global capitalism has successfully withdrawn from Fordism and Newford means that certain elements of Ford are still there. Several theorists proposed other practical alternatives including Sonyism, Toyota principle, Fujitsu, Gatesism. The postwar economy has accepted various modern strategies. New information technology is becoming increasingly important as companies recognize the possibility of creating a networked and flexible world economy. Labor is also feminine. The service industry dominated the manufacturing industry, the financial market became global. After Ford did not target mass consumption like before, after pushing that product to the niche market. Several features of stable Postford principle have been confirmed. Production, labor, system or machine must be flexible

The central characteristics of general mass production, in particular the Fordist production organization in the automobile industry, have a contradictory effect on workers' bargaining power. On the one hand, continuous flow production and assembly lines intensify competition in the labor market through homogenization / technicalization of industrial work role, eliminating craft market's market-based bargaining power. On the other hand, continuous flow production and assembly lines increase the vulnerability of capital to direct action by workers at production sites. We call it "workplace bargaining power" because of the serious damage the person receives in complex division of labor (Arrighi and Silver 1984: 193-5).

1930 - Present: World auto industry riots and ongoing regional restructuring - Beverly Silver