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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.
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Some writers have characterised this shift to an economy with flexible, more fragmented, less stable employment and high unemployment rates as a shift from a Fordist economy towards a post-Fordist economy (Painter and Goodwin, 2000).
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