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20 Cards in this Set
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What is mass production?
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Single purpose machines, unskilled labour, distant from suppliers (Storper and Scott 2005)
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What does an internal division of labour mean?
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Simpler tasks
Interchangeable workers Economy of scale |
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What is a local labour market?
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Local pool of people from which employees are found
Gregory et al (2009) |
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What is labour market segmentation?
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Dual economy
Primary and secondary sectors (Fordist and competitive (Hayter and Barnes 1992)) Primary subordinate (office); primary independent (managerial/ professional) |
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What kind of workers were the managerial in Fordist segmentation?
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White collar; good conditions; high wages; non-wage benefits; white males; entry at top
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What kind of workers were the labourer in Fordist segmentation?
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Blue collar; IDL; unions (ladder of seniority); white males; entry at bottom
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Who are excluded in the Fordist labour market?
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Peripheral workers; SMEs; uneducated white males; females; ethnic minorities
Averitt (1968) |
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What do Hayter and Barnes (1992) say the problems are with the Fordist labour market?
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Misogynistic structure; wages, benefits and conditions decline as you go down
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What does a high turnover of jobs in the Fordist labour market imply?
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Lack of job satisfaction
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What problems do the primary subordiante class suffer in the Fordist labour market?
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Long hours; driven to work by foremen and unions; collective bargaining shunned at first opportunity
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What Theory can be applied to the Fordist labour market?
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Marxist
Attempt to explain origin and reproduction of class divisions |
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To what extent was the U.K. influenced by Fordism?
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Very little
700,000/ 20.4m employed in Fordist production |
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What benefits did labourers get from the Fordist system?
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Roosevelt's New Deal (1932): influential unions
Good working conditions, stable employment, equity, advancement (Hayter and Barnes 1992) |
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What benefits did managers see from the Fordist system?
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Increase productivity
High worker turnover Higher profit New Deal (Unlikely strikes) |
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What disadvantages did labourers get from the Fordist system?
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Repetitive work; unskilled; foremen; low wage; poor conditions; high labour turnover; males dominate primary sector
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What disadvantages did management see in the Fordist system?
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Ownership divorced from control
Public ownership (shares) |
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Why did Hayter and Barnes (1992) say the Fordist system fell in to crisis?
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Boring reperitive work
Expensive and inflexible machinery Flexible manufacturing promised greater productivity improvement |
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What was the Fordist system locked in to?
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inflexible working patterns
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What did the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 do?
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Rasised production costs
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Where was international competition seen from?
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Japan and JIT system
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