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Fordism |
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Fordism the theory of Henry Ford stating that production efficiency is dependent on successful assembly-line methods. See also: Economics |
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There are many other passages, particularly those attempting to connect Fordism (mass production and mass consumption) and psychoanalysis, that rest on sweeping generalizations so that one can only wonder: are they true? It has become the victim of Taylorisation, Fordism, managerialism, and globalisation, and it has been reduced to routinized, technocratic and bureaucratic tasks where evidence and competency-based practice and risk assessments are the order of the day irrespective of whether or not they improve the lot of clients. He saw, for example, how computer-controlled machinery was making Fordism obsolete and therefore undermining some of the basic assumptions of Modernism. |
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