Post-Fordist Illusions

Knowledge-Based Economies and Transformation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12928640
AutoresJames Avis (0000-0002-7404-938X, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen5
Número1
Páginas16-27
Fecha de publicación2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPower and Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1757-7438 • E-ISSN: 1757-7438
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2304/power.2013.5.1.16
OpenAlexW2134701761
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias 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