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post-Fordism
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post-Fordism [ˌpəʊstˈfɔːdɪzəm]
n
(Business / Commerce) the idea that modern industrial production has moved away from mass production in huge factories, as pioneered by Henry Ford, the US car manufacturer (1863-1947), towards specialized markets based on small flexible manufacturing units
post-Fordist  adj


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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).
Arguably, Treadwell is the figure of the "emotional" post-Fordist subject par excellence, using the bears as the medium for transferring his emotions into the public sphere for the sake of both self-realization and soothing emotional suffering.
 
 
 
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