Post-Fordist Illusions

Knowledge-Based Economies and Transformation

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12928640
AutoresJames Avis (0000-0002-7404-938X, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume5
Fascículo1
Páginas16-27
Data de publicação2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPower and Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1757-7438 • E-ISSN: 1757-7438
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2304/power.2013.5.1.16
OpenAlexW2134701761
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas23

The argument that post-Fordism was able to overcome the oppressions and exploitations embedded within Fordist work relations has been subject to extensive critique for its evasion of capitalist antagonisms. However, there are particular analytic currents in radical thought which assert that knowledge-based economies hold within them not only radical, but also transformative possibilities. Such possibilities flow from developments in the forces of production and changes in the way in which surplus value is generated. These arguments tend to be located within what could be described as the knowledge economy as well as the creative industries. This article seeks to interrogate these arguments and suggests that, as with earlier discussions of post-Fordism, they are amenable to capitalist appropriation

Appropriation · Argument (complex analysis · Capitalism · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Epistemology · Fordism · Neoclassical economics · Phenomenon · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Productive forces · Sociology · Subject (documents · Surplus value · Transformative learning · Value (mathematics · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political Economy and Marxism