*Oh to have lived to see the day. #Fordism #sputteringModelT
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1914, #Ford announced an eight-hour day & $5 daily wage - double the daily average. This inaugurated the era of #Fordism: pairing lower-cost, mass-produced goods with wages sufficient to buy them. Crucially, these concessions were meant to crush #unions.
Tried today to make sense of #informality today and how and why I still want to use terms like #informaleconomy and #informaltransport. Problem is the distinction formal/informal is largely predicated on position a short and geographically limited form of capitalist regulation, #fordism, as norm […]
Isn’t it the fulfilment of #Fordism? #BraveNewWorld #AldousHuxley I do hope that it will lead to capitalism eating itself though!!
#james-graham #financial-crash-2008 #2008-financial-crisis #britain #british-politics #political-history #economic-crisis #fordism #institutional-resilience #debt-society #economic-reform #cultural-narrative #playwright #dear-england #ink #make-it-happen
#fordism
#elonmusk
#ford
#tesla
#fordismo
He clearly does not care about global warming, so there is only another explanation I suppose.
He doesn't even want trade unions, so it's pretty clear to me.
“ #Detroit and #Fordism were once synecdoche for a mode of production around the world. Today, China’s share of #global #automotive #car #production is 13 times that of the USA” open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...
To make an already too long story short: May this be the place to have lots of conversations on topics like #workplacedemocracy #Luddism #neo-Luddism #Taylorism #Fordism #humanizationofwork
#mustread #article #urbanism #factory #production #fordism #metabolism #city
Trees or Mushrooms? Politicizing Citizen-Worker-Consumers in the City-Factory by Alin Rautoiu
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