Post-Fordism

1. Post-Fordism: Models, fantasies and phantoms of transition: Ash Amin. Part One: New Macroeconomic Designs: 2. Puzzling out the Post-Fordist debate: technology, markets and institutions: Mark Elam. 3. The Crisis of Fordism and the Dimensions of a "post-Fordist" regional and urban structure: Josef Esser and Joachim Hirsch. Part Two: New Sociologies and Geographies of Industrial Organization: 4. Flexible specialization and the re-emergence of regional economies: Charles Sabel. 5. A new paradigm of work organization and technology: John Tomaney. 6. The transition to flexible specialization in the US film industry: external economies, the division of labour and the crossing of industrial divides: Michael Storper. 7. Competing structural and institutional influences on the geography of production in Europe: Ash Amin and Anders Malmberg. Part Three: Policy and Politics Beyond Fordism: 8. Post-Fordism and the state. 9. Searching for a new institutional fix: the after-Fordist crisis and global-local disorder. 10. Post-Fordist city politics: Margit Mayer. 11. Post-Fordism and democracy: Alain Lipietz. Part Four: Post-Fordist City Lives and Lifestyles: 12. Flexible accumulation through urbanization: reflections on post-modernism in the American city. 13. City cultures and postmodern lifestyles: Mike Featherstone. 14. The fortress city: privatized spaces, consumer citizenship: Susan Christopherson.