The Transition to Flexibility 1996 edition

Marc Notes: From mass production to flexible production for niche markets--explores soc., economic & political implications; Conference papers...199Table of Contents: 1. The Current Transition in Industrial Capitalism. 2. Technology, Competitiveness, and Flexibility: Constantly Evolving Concepts. 3. Labor and Capitalist Accumulation in the Late Twentieth Century: What and Who is Flexible? 4. Preparing Workers and Students for the New Workplace. 5. Large Firm Strategies: Spatial Patterns of Production. 6. Services and Flexible Production: Contingent But Mutually Reinforcing Systems. 7. Inter-Firm Collaboration and Industrial Competitiveness. 8. Government Response to Structural Change and the Implementation of More Flexible Management and Production Systems. 9. Fixed Structures in Transition: The Changing Demand for Office and Industrial Infrastructure. 10. Period and Place, Capitalist Development, and the Flexible Specialization Debate. 11. The Current Transition Reconsidered.