Dismantling flexibility
- 1 March 1988
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Capital & Class
- Vol. 12 (1), 42-75
- https://doi.org/10.1177/030981688803400107
Abstract
Two distinct ideas — that the labour force is becoming more flexible and that flexible specialisation offers a new means for capital to exert control — are critically evaluated. The evidence for both fashionable theses is found to be wanting; their increasing acceptability is linked to a retreat from class politics and from a confrontation of inequalities of race and sex. Indeed they herald a new form of imperialism.Keywords
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