TY - JOUR
AU - Nederveen Pieterse, Jan
AB -  Development and Change Vol. 28 (1997), 367±382. # Institute of Social Studies 1997. Published by Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 108 Cowley Rd, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK. Jan Nederveen Pieterse problematics. Ash Amin's outstanding collection on post-Fordism, Hirst and Thompson's provocative book on globalization, the Group of Lisbon's programmatic work on competitiveness, and the recent series on Rethinking Bretton Woods provide an opportunity to cut-'n'-mix these debates. Post-Fordism Ash Amin's collection Post-Fordism distinguishes three theoretical approaches to post-Fordism: neo-Schumpeterian, regulationist, and ¯exible specialization. Generally the crisis of Fordism is attributed to changes in consumption patterns, which have become more volatile and ¯uid, and the rise of ¯exible manufacturing technologies and work practices, along with the slump in demand since the 1970s. Beyond this common ground, each theoretical approach has di€erent takes on the crisis: neo-Schumpeterians point to technological changes, regulationists to the breakdown in regulation, and proponents of ¯exible specialization to geographical fragmentation. Neo-Schumpeterians analyse industrial divides in terms of technologydriven innovations. Contemporary and future capitalism are viewed as knowledge-intensive, centred around information technology and concerned with economies of scope rather than scale. The type of policy interventions neo-Schumpeterians typically advocate are supply-side strategies of training, education and skill-upgrading, identifying 
TI - Going Global: Futures of Capitalism
JF - Development and Change
DO - 10.1111/1467-7660.00046
DA - 1997-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/going-global-futures-of-capitalism-GXFY2429p7
SP - 367
VL - 28
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -