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Fordism

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Fordism

Mass production characterized by a high degree of job specialization, as typified by the Ford Motor Company's early use of assembly lines. Mass-production techniques were influenced by US management consultant F W Taylor's book Principles of Scientific Management (1911).

Post-Fordism management theory and practice emphasize flexibility and autonomy of decision-making for nonmanagerial staff. It is concerned more with facilitating and coordinating tasks than with control.



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There are many other passages, particularly those attempting to connect Fordism (mass production and mass consumption) and psychoanalysis, that rest on sweeping generalizations so that one can only wonder: are they true?
Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis by Decker, Hannah S. / Journal of Social History
It has become the victim of Taylorisation, Fordism, managerialism, and globalisation, and it has been reduced to routinized, technocratic and bureaucratic tasks where evidence and competency-based practice and risk assessments are the order of the day irrespective of whether or not they improve the lot of clients.
Lena Dominelli, Social Work: Theory and Practice for a Changing ... by Gray, Mel / Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
He saw, for example, how computer-controlled machinery was making Fordism obsolete and therefore undermining some of the basic assumptions of Modernism.
Biotech futures by Davies, Colin / The Architectural Review
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