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This paper analyzes three labor documentaries released from 1989 to 1991, which depict the United States' assumed transition from a Fordist to post-Fordist economy. Feminist textual analysis focuses on the depiction of workplaces and gender roles in Roger and Me, American Dream, and Fast Food Women. The analysis demonstrated that discourses of epochal change in the context only held true if one looked at a slice of the U.S. labor market largely dominated by White men. Focusing on feminine sex-typed labor demonstrated the worst elements of industrial Fordism remained in post-Fordist workplaces. Long-standing sexual divisions of labor were unambiguously repeated in post-Fordist work and intensified in a discussion of the family wage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The presented paper deals with the basic issues, dilemmas and social and cultural contradictions in the Polish transformation process against the background of Central and Eastern Europe, the processes of the establishment and development of new states and nations as well as the new markets. The author views these problems through the light of the emergence of a broad class of subcontractors in a turbulent environment and the new modes of production, which are a result of changes in the structure of human labour introduced by post-Fordism (in its final stage, lean management) and postmodernity. The author also analyzes the social change as a consequence of social relations resulting from exchanging the life chances of the actors for the class-conditioned market opportunities in the existing social and political situation (conjoncture) and at the present stage of transformation at the moment when the emergent markets get shaped and mature. The study makes use of the hermeneutic method, which is finding out the essence of the present phase of transformation through the light of new concepts against the background of the historical-comparative analysis. The present article is not aimed at ordering reality but it is an inspiration for studies and for approaching transformation in accordance with a new conceptual apparatus of social sciences, sociology, management and political economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bu çalışmanın konusu, neo-liberal dönemde kamu istihdam süreçlerinde ortaya çıkan esnek ve güvencesiz istihdam biçimlerine karşı sendikaların bu alandaki temel yaklaşım ve stratejilerinin neler olduğu üzerinedir. Bu noktada kamu sağlık hizmetleri alanında faaliyet gösteren ve aktif olarak örgütlenme faaliyeti yürüten üç büyük işçi sendikasının şube yöneticisiyle derinlemesine görüşmeler yapılmış ve bu noktada sendikaların esnek ve güvencesiz istihdam süreçleriyle alakalı hangi noktalarda benzeştiği ve ayrıştığı konusu üzerinde durulmaya çalışılmıştır. Araştırmada sendikaların esnek ve güvencesiz istihdam biçimlerinin kaldırılması noktasında benzer bir düşünce içerisinde olduğu görülmüştür. Bunun yanında sendikaların çözüm noktasında birbirlerinden farklılaştığı ve diğer sendikaları görmezden gelici ve ötekileştirici bir tutum içerisinde oldukları görülmüştür.

The industrial revolution taking place since the 18th century has brought the global economies to the stage of mass production, mass industrialization and spreading ideas connected with its efficiency. The most famous of its kind is Fordism and its modern variations called Post- Fordism or Neo-Fordism. We can still see traditional way of producing things in some parts of the world, and the leading economies are using Ford's ideas or the modifications of the Ford's concepts. But there is a question about the place of these models in the modern economy, especially because mass-production causes mass-waste and modern societies has woken up to the reality of the global pollution, climate change or just the simple fact that the amount of the raw materials is limited. The social mood is slowly changing so there should be a change to the way we produce and consume things as well. There is a question: can we proceed within existing models or should we think outside the box so we can invent more suitable way of looking at efficiency and effectiveness. The objective of this paper is to contribute to the discussion about the future of how are we going to produce things. It is based on the literature review considering Fordism and its variations, Product Life Cycle facing issues like pollution, massive waste and changes in modern economy, as well as on the case study of implementing waste reduction activities in the product' design phase in the industrial plant based in one of the EU countries -- Poland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Consumption perceived more as an economic activity at first sight; beyond being a mere economic reality, it has a social, cultural and psychological dimension and meaning. As a matter of fact, as a result of the progress and transformations of the production system, which is a product of the economic system, consumption emerges as a way of participating in social life as a cultural practice and as an important instrument of developing social relations. In this context, the motto of "consume as much as you need" of the pre-industrial period has left its place to the motto "you have as much as you consume" shaped in line with themes and motives such as "desire, pleasure and status" during and after the industrial period. The subject of this study is the new appearances and new meanings of consumption shaped by changing production systems and consumer expectations. The aim of the study is to discuss the transformations of the production-consumption relationship without neglecting the production aspect of the subject in an effort to present a historical integrity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The collective work The Formation of a Welfare State and the Prospects of a Social State in Russia: Realities and Projects, prepared by the Center for the Study of Sociocultural Change (CSSCC) of the RAS Institute of Philosophy under the general editorship of RAS Corresponding Member N.I. Lapin, is discussed. The relevance of this work is emphasized. Theoretical innovations, including the introduction of new concepts in scientific and philosophical discourse, are noted, and the theoretical and empirical value of many of its chapters is shown. At the same time, in the opinion of the reviewer, some conceptual statements of the authors need more thorough substantiation, in particular, the idea of transition from a welfare state to a social state. The analysis of the deficiencies of the welfare state from the standpoint of critical social theory, carried out in some chapters, seems insufficiently reasoned. At the same time, in the opinion of the reviewer, the reasoning on modernization as the main prerequisite for the formation of a social state in Russia appears convincing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides a study of precarisation through the lens of dress work : the mundane practice of dressing the body for work. Based on intimate in-depth wardrobe interviews and analyses of workers' narratives about their dressing practices, we develop a perspective on what insecure work feels like for workers in the interactive services and creative industries. We understand dress work as a materially mediated practice in which workers often aim to achieve a level of comfort: a state in which they are allowed to become less reflexive about their bodies. One of the ways in which precarisation makes itself known, we contend, is through the temporal logic of the interruption. The temporality of zero-hours contracts and short-term, insecure labour interrupts the achievement of comfort as workers are not allowed the time to experience their work, colleagues and spaces. The discomfort and sometimes pain of insecurity of post-Fordist labour is thus felt on the body. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Existing scholarship finds that early industrialized animation studios sought to emphasize the unpredictable liveliness of creativity at their studios, while also demonstrating their ability to control and manage production through industrial management techniques that promoted regulation and efficiency. This article examines how this dynamic between unpredictability and control has been negotiated by digital animation studios since the early 1980s, with a focus on the way Pixar Animation Studios represents its management theory through popular books, business journal articles, DVD extras, and behind-the-scenes promotional material. This article highlights how computational principles for creating and managing unpredictability via nonlinear simulation inform Pixar's promoted management theory. The principles of simulated unpredictability ground many of Pixar's key technological advances, especially for animating fluids and materials (water, smoke, fur, and cloth), but they also ground concepts within the field of management science such as industrial dynamics and organizational resilience. This epistemic frame leads Pixar to represent creativity as the unpredictable product of carefully controlled conditions and parameters and this collapse of technology, animation, and management helps to sculpt Pixar's own corporate image as both an animation studio and technology company. The research in this article offers contributions to the study of both post-Fordism in animation industries and algorithmic control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This speculative paper enquires into the discourse of the 'end of labour' or 'disappearance of labour' as a result of the development of 'intelligent capitalism' clearly seen in 'intelligent manufacturing' systems that are now pursued and developed as Industry 4.0 strategy in East Asia, Germany and others parts of the world. When 'intelligent capitalism' becomes the norm rather the exception what happens to labour as a factor of production and what happens to economy and society based on capital and labour? The paper briefly reviews the sociology of labour from a Marxist view to examine conceptions of Fordist and post-Fordist capitalism, and explore the advert of 'intelligent capitalism' to pose the question concerning education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Around 2010, the inventor character started to populate animated blockbusters. Computer 3D animated films and their sequels such as Robots (Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha, 2005), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, 2009), Despicable Me (Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, 2010) and Big Hero 6 (Don Hall and Chris Williams, 2014) all feature inventors and their extravagant machines. In this article, the author explores the inventive artisan character as a self-reflexive trope of the animator. She expands Crafton’s thesis of the animator’s self-figuration and Tom Gunning’s work on machine comedy and operational aesthetics to further discussions on the animator and thereby the labour of animation. The article seeks to reveal the political agenda in the new animated machine comedy of the 2010s, which not only reflects the modes of production of contemporary animation studios, but also the larger concerns in the post-Fordist mode of production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trump's campaign slogan forces us to ask a simple question: when was America great? Surely, what he has in mind here is the America of the post-war Fordist and Keynesian social welfare models, which saw both the rise of the new suburban middle class and the rise of the white patriarchal figure, the Oedipal agent of the 'father who knows best'. But the coming post-Fordist society has figured the dismantling of the welfare model under the austerity regimes of neoliberalism, at the same time displacing the phallic signifier of paternal authority. Is it possible to bring back white masculine power and the model that made possible the suburban middle class? Or is 'America' the lost object that cuts into the Trumpian imaginary? The American utopia in 'Make America Great Again', is the very nothingness out of which the loss constitutive of Trumpian ideology consists, turning it instead into an American nightmare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article will deal with the phenomenon of globalization bringing reorganizations in the scope of the culture of the peoples, with regard to language, social life, politics, economics, etc. Subsequently, aspects of narrative history that culminate in today's globalized world, from the movement of Fordism to post-Fordism, as well as changes in the systems of accumulation will be dealt with, addressing the current formation of technopoles throughout the world as a result of evolution Industrialization and the advancement of technology. In the sequence, it deals with globalization from the standpoint of the renowned author José Eduardo Faria, especially on what advocates Reflective Law on the current economic and social phenomena. In the end, the article will deal with different regimes of accumulation and regulation in the context of globalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ÖZ: Dünya ekonomik sisteminin kapitalizm tarafından şekillendirildiği bilinen bir gerçektir. Dolayısıyla, ekonomik sistem içinde yer alan fordizm ve post-fordizm de kapitalizmin etkisi altında bulunmaktadır. Burada yapılan araştırmada görüldüğü gibi, fordizm modernizmi etkilemekte, daha sonra gündeme gelen post-fordizm de post-modernizmi etkilemektedir. Öte yandan, modernizm ve post-modernizm, “gelişme yazını” ve “azgelişme yazını” tarafından farklı açılardan ele alınmaktadır. Bu teorilere “azgelişmişlik” açısından bakılmadığında, toplumsal kalkınma sorununa gelişmeyi destekleyici bir çözüm getirilememektedir. O nedenle, bu makalede, ekonomik sistemleri de belirleyen üretim ilişkileri de dikkate alınarak, modernizm ve post-modernizm teorilerinin azgelişme açısından incelenmesi üzerine yoğunlaşılmaktadır. Literatür araştırmalarından elde edilen sonuçla, üretim ilişkileri temelinde modernizm ve post-modernizm gelişmiş devletlerin çıkarlarına işlemektedir. Çalışmada buradan hareketle, azgelişmiş devletlerin zararlarına olabilecek faktörler vurgulanmaya ve bu faktörlerin etkisini ortadan kaldırmaya yönelik politika önerilerinde bulunulmaya çalışılmaktadır. Anahtar Kelimeler: Azgelişme, Kapitalizm, Modernizm, Post-modernizm, Fordizm, Post-fordizm, Bağımlılık Okulu. ABSTRACT: It is a well-known reality that capitalism forms the economic system of the world. Therefore, fordism and post-fordism contained in the economic system are also under the influence of capitalism. As shown in the research, fordism affects the modernism, and in the next step dealt post-fordism influences the post-modernism. On the other hand, the modernism and post-modernism theories have been considered through different perspectives by the “development literature” and the “underdevelopment literature”. It is not possible to find a solution against the social development problem unless these theories are taken into consideration in terms of “underdevelopment” perspective. For this reason, in this article, investigation of the modernism and post-modernism theories has been concentrated in terms of underdevelopment based on production relations which determines economic systems. According to the findings acquired in literature review, modernism and post-modernism are beneficial for developed countries based on relations of production. Starting this point, this study aims to emphasize the factors that could be disadvantageous for underdeveloped countries and attempts to offer new policies intended to prevent the undesired effects of these factors. Keywords: Underdevelopment, Capitalism, Modernism, Post-modernism, Fordism, Post-fordism, School of Dependency.

The intention of this article is to problematize global capitalism as the ‘common enemy’ of the ‘anti-globalization’ movements by placing it within the ambiguities of post-modernity. Looking at (post)-Fordism, I talk about the incompleteness of any hegemonic project. Gramscian understanding of hegemony as born in the factory may still be still valid but needs to be expanded to cover what Deleuze describes as ‘arbitrary bio-politics’. While power aims at control of minds, moods or feelings, the attempt to normalize these evades the power of any institution and contains the potentialities of its own subversion.

In the historical study of modern American capitalism, labor unfreedom in agriculture has been conceptualized as an exception to liberal labor relations in the post-slavery polity, from debt peonage to the threat of deportation from workplaces populated by non-citizen migrants. At the same time, state-enforced labor compulsions and restrictions are increasingly part and parcel of what scholars call neoliberal exceptionalism. This article argues that agricultural and neoliberal exceptionalisms are related, by tracing the historical genealogy and juridical production of a restrictive work status, the deportable temporary labor migrant, across political economies in the modern United States, from imperial construction in the Panama Canal Zone, to agriculture, to the knowledge economy. Contrary to existing notions of temporary work visas as a new form of unfreedom in neoliberalized advanced capitalist states, I show how the threat of deportation is older and rooted in the rise of the liberal regulatory state in a post-slavery, yet persistently racial capitalist political economy. The import of understanding this history of government intervention increases as the liberal regulatory state's coercive logics and practices intensify and circulate in agriculture and under a post-Fordist regime of accumulation, reproducing racial capitalism in the labor process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the impact of the introduction of lower secondary schools on the educational style of the working classes in Poland. This particular reform is seen as one of the elements of change to the education system adapting it to the general parameters of post-Fordism. The author supports the theory of Pierre Bourdieu, which states that society is divided into three social classes (upper, middle and popular) and each of them produces a specific lifestyle and style of education. The education style of a class provides individuals with certain dispositions to educational institutions and school careers, which are realised in the form of social practices (selection of specific type of schools, learning techniques, ways of spending time, etc.). The changes taking place in the education system in Poland over the last 15 years, i.e. since the 1999 reform, are similar to processes that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s in western countries. They include the economisation of education, the parameterisation and quantification of educational results, as well as the introduction of market mechanisms for managing and financing state-owned schools. The article is based on individual in-depth interviews conducted during two field studies organised in 2013-2014: Cultural practices of the working class (120 IDIs) and Class differences in cultural practices in the North-Eastern Poland (60 IDIs). The findings become the basis of formulating new theoretical and research proposals for the field of education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This essay examines the contemporary mindfulness movement as a cultural response to a larger problem of attention in the United States. As raw material for both capital (re)production and subjectivity, attention is a zone of indeterminacy and struggle for workers in a so-called immaterial economy. This essay suggests that the rise of concern around “paying attention” from the 1950s onward is driven by post-Fordist labor requirements more than networked technologies. First, it examines mindfulness as a technique of attention management for businesses and gives a broad survey of its current popularity and prevalence in US culture. Second, it proposes viewing techniques of attention like mindfulness through a triple lens of repair: (1) as managerial tools to repair psychic labor capacity for capital; (2) as practices that subjects use to repair alienation; and (3) as sites for reparative reading. Third, the essay illuminates the ties between Eve Sedgwick’s repair and Michel Foucault’s care of the self in order to suggest that resistance to practicing the self is founded on a paranoid defense. Its central argument is that attention is a method in Foucault's care of the self, and, as such, a potential portal into pleasure and political change rather than a mere feedback loop into capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In its history, production, plots and gestures, slapstick comedy was tied to the rise of modern labor in terms of both Taylorist theory and Fordist practice. Comic heroes ranging from live action comedians Chaplin or Keaton to animated animals Felix or Mickey worked against work through the playful excesses of their obediences and transgressions within an increasingly rationalized, industrial world. The digital animation studio Pixar summoned slapstick and its specifically Fordist resonances in its 2008 feature, WALL-E, yet offered a twist in humanizing a figure of perfected Fordism itself with its title character, a robot repetitively working in a post-apocalyptic earth devoid of human life. Explicitly modeled after Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd, WALL-E contrasts with the film’s humans, who are entirely liberated from labor through automation in a satirical reflection of both post-Fordist accounts of the ‘end of work’ as well as broader critiques of a distracting digital culture. This article focuses on the film’s revitalization of slapstick traditions within the context of recent debates about post-Fordism, the future of automated labor and the transformation of working human bodies. Just as slapstick’s relationship to modern labor touched on the playful mode of its cinematic production as well as their form as indexical montage so too does Pixar’s corporate reputation as ‘Creativity, Inc’ suggest a complex relationship between its slapstick hero and the digital labor animating his movement. The same will be argued of Pixar’s vaunted techniques with both digital image-making and commodity generation, both of which suggest a nostalgic animation of slapstick’s antinomies as much as a disavowal of the post-Fordist production of which Pixar is vanguard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo expone, en primer lugar, las diferencias - históricas, culturales, epistemológicas y metodológicas - entre las categorías de control social y control punitivo (estatal), vinculado este último a la tradición continental-europea. En este sentido, la remisión genérica a la idea de «regulación social», muy usada en varios campos disciplinarios, es objeto de análisis en relación con la de control social, nacida y empleada en un ámbito cultural y un período histórico muy precisos. En cualquier caso, y dentro de un marco de enfoques pluri-disciplinarios que tienen que ver con la organización de la sociedad y el control de la población, el autor considera que conviene alejar cualquier atisbo de aplicación del castigo o la punición que emerje de los sistemas penales modernos con un sentido «organizativo», «controlador» o «regulador». Una segunda parte del trabajo trata de la incidencia que, a juicio del autor, tienen las transformaciones acaecidas en las nociones de tiempo y espacio, en el terreno de las disciplinas físico-matemáticas, con respecto al control que se pretende ejercer a través de los medios que tradicionalmente se consideran instrumentos de control social. De este modo, se intenta explicar la distancia que en las disciplinas sociales y jurídicas, separa a los conceptos y a las instituciones cuando se presume que ellos y ellas pueden resultar eternamente idóneos para los mismos fines. Ello así, porque las formas del conocimiento están absolutamente conectadas y permeadas por fenómenos que, proviniendo de la esfera económica de las sociedades, atraviesan todos sus niveles. A partir de estos elementos se avanza en una tercera parte de la exposición, la cual está relacionada con la globalización y los distintos fenómenos que ella produce, particularizando el enfoque sobre las transformaciones que pueden constatarse en lo que actualmente se puede entender como control social.The article firstly presents the historical, cultural, epistemological and methodological differences between the categories of social control and punitive (State) control, linking the latter to continental European tradition. Therefore, the generic reference to the idea of "social regulation", often used in several disciplinary fields, is the object of analysis in relation to that of social control, born and employed within very precise cultural scenario and historical period. In any case, and within multidisciplinary approaches related to globalization of society and control of the population, the author thinks that we should reject any glimmer of application of punishment with an "organizational", controlling" or "regulating" sense that emerges from modern criminal systems. A second part of the work approaches the impact that - in the author's opinion - changes on the notions of time and space have in the field of physical-mathematical disciplines, regarding the control that is to be exercised through means that are traditionally seen as instruments for social control. Therefore, the aim is to explain the distance that separates - in social and legal disciplines - concepts and institutions when it is presumed that both can be eternally suitable for the same ends. That is so because forms of knowledge are absolutely connected and pervaded by phenomena that, coming from societies' economic spheres, cross al their levels. Based on those elements we advance to a third part in the presentation, which is related to globalization and the distinct phenomena resulting from it, especially the approach of changes seen in what can be currently understood as social control.

In today French Community of Belgium, we are still largely inheriting « labour » oriented cultural policies of the 1960s and 70s with no place for "urban" expression. Since then, the "urban culture" and the "street art" became relevant categories sustained by the private market and raising the concept of the "creative city". This paper examines this tension by focusing on the difficulties faced by cultural policies to integrate urban culture. It shows the risks of exclusion facing certain forms of urban expression that feature the creative city and the potential forms of appropriation of these urban expressions by the private market of art and culture.