TY - JOUR
AU - Wrigley, E A
AB - Environment and Planning D: Society and Spoco, 1990, volume 8, pngon 369-374 Reviews The transformation of work?: skill, flexibility and the labour process edited by S Wood; Unwin Hymnn, London, 1989, 365 pages, £30.00 cloth, £10.95 paper (US; $49.95 cloth) This book represents an important and timely contribution to urban and regional studies, and to social science generally on the significance and direction of changes in work organisation and new technology over the past decade. Consciously modelled on an earlier book edited by Wood, The Degradation of Workl (1982), it readdresses the question of the skilling or deskilling of work under capitalism within the context of the contemporary and sometimes confusing debate on flexible specialisation, Fordist, nco-Forclist, and posl-Fordist production. Moreover, as Wood makes clear in his excellent introductory chapter, in The Transformation of Work1}, he attempts to address these questions without resorting to the stereotypes so often found in this debate, between those who see current changes as representing a radical break from Taylorism and Fordism, and others who see the restructuring of production as reinforcing these principles of work organisation. In contrast, this book sets out to evaluate the assumptions underlying these different positions critically, and to 
TI - Review: The Transformation of Work?: Skill, Flexibility and the Labour Process, Domination and Resistance, Cities and Economic Development: From the Dawn of History to the Present
JF - Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
DO - 10.1068/d080369
DA - 1990-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/review-the-transformation-of-work-skill-flexibility-and-the-labour-01nZeMuB1s
SP - 369
EP - 374
VL - 8
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -