Compromising positions: emergent neo-Fordisms and embedded gender contracts.
This paper adopts a regulation framework to chart the emergence of neo-Fordism as a flexible accumulation regime and mode of social regulation. Neo-Fordism relies on old Fordist principles as well as incorporating new models of emergent post-Fordisms; old and new social relationships, in their particular combination, specify the trajectory of national variants. I argue that Fordist bargains institutionalized the terms of a compromise between labour, capital and the state. These bargains embedded a male-breadwinner gender contract compromising women's positions and standardizing employment contracts around the needs, interests and authority of men. A focus on compromises and contracts makes visible the differentiated gender effects of work transformation in each country.
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College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs, Wayne State University, USA.
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016134:Organizational Policy; D011050:Policy Making; D012737:Sex Factors; D014481:United States; D014937:Work