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Today's equivalent would be the Schaeffler family, although it has only been around for the last hundred years or so - the period of "Fordist" capitalism.
CounterPunch 2009
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FDR was the ultimate "Fordist" president who viewed the auto, steel and rubber plants as mutually reinforcing bedrock components of the capitalist system.
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Contrast this with the middle decades of the last century, when communism, organised labour, and the strength and autonomy of municipal governments all posed serious challenges to capital and made it possible for governments to implement the very high levels of regulation and socialisation typical of 'Fordist' capitalism.
Red Pepper 2009
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In the 1989 New Times collection of edited Marxism Today articles, Robin Murray argued the wealth of the post-war 'Fordist' (i.e. old times) era rested in part on a production paradigm that was pioneered by Henry Ford's principles of mass production.
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In the 1989 New Times collection of edited Marxism Today articles, Robin Murray argued the wealth of the post-war 'Fordist' (i.e. old times) era rested in part on a production paradigm that was pioneered by Henry Ford's principles of mass production.
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In the 1989 New Times collection of edited Marxism Today articles, Robin Murray argued the wealth of the post-war 'Fordist' (i.e. old times) era rested in part on a production paradigm that was pioneered by Henry Ford's principles of mass production.
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Between the teens and the thirties we move from aspiration to Actually Existing Modernism, and encounter a few uncomfortable realities of utopia: a kitchen designed for the maximum efficiency in movement of a housewife as if she were some kind of Fordist machine for living off; the brutal inhumanity of Le Corbusier’s boxes; the calculation of smaller and smaller living spaces.
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Between the teens and the thirties we move from aspiration to Actually Existing Modernism, and encounter a few uncomfortable realities of utopia: a kitchen designed for the maximum efficiency in movement of a housewife as if she were some kind of Fordist machine for living off; the brutal inhumanity of Le Corbusier’s boxes; the calculation of smaller and smaller living spaces.
Design Dialectics at the teapot museum « Squares of Wheat 2006
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It's much easier to blame Facebook for these changes than the post-Fordist economy.
Claire Gordon: The Narcissism Myth Claire Gordon 2011
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It's much easier to blame Facebook for these changes than the post-Fordist economy.
Claire Gordon: The Narcissism Myth Claire Gordon 2011
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