The Fordism above all Neo Marxists call one after the First World War established form of goods production. The term of Antonio Gramsci was coined/shaped.

It is designated after the industriellen Henry Ford, whose organization is regarded of work and capital as typical for the entire epoch. With the theory of the Fordism is to be explained on the basis of Marxist principles, how it came to the development of the welfare state in place of the crisisful collapse of capitalism actually which can be expected.

Fordism is based on strongly standardized mass production and - konsumption by consumer goods, assembly line work, the Taylorismus, optimized scientifically in, a certain partnership between workers and entrepreneurs as well as a wage development at a value of productivity progress plus inflation rate. The Fordistic wage development became since end of the 60's a hindrance of the capitalistic development. Therefore the wage ratio began to sink as portion GROS DOMESTIC PRODUCT in most industrialized countries in the post office Fordism.

Large it is based on the developments of the new Deals: social security systems, lifelong employment during an employer and large full employment. The developments of the welfare state are understood as agreements between workers and capital: the workers are taken part in the prosperity, for women out carry the necessary reproduction work, by both rise the paragraph and the capitalistic accumulation can continue.

The Fordistic organization after the society was replaced since end of the 1960er. The theory than Toyotismus or post office Fordism designates newer developments.

The dystopische vision of the future in the novel "beautiful one new world "develops on the Fordism.

See also

• Accumulation regime
• Flexible specialization
• Technocracy

Literature

• Friedrich of Gottl Ottlilienfeld: Fordism. Over industry and technical reason, Jena 1924
• Joachim deer/Roland Roth: The new face of capitalism. From the Fordism to the post office Ford, Hamburg, VSA publishing house, 1986
• Ferruccio Gambino: Criticism at the term of the Fordism, like it the regularization school uses, in: Wildcat circular letter No. 28/29 - October 1996 - P. 139-160

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