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TY - CHAP
T1 - What follows Fordism? On the Periodisation of Capitalism and its Regulation .
AU - Jessop, Bob
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - This chapter addresses three issues: the general nature of periodisation; alternative criteria for periodising capitalism; and the contradictions of Atlantic Fordism and after-Fordist economies. My analysis rests on a 'strategic-relational' approach. Emphasising the interplay of structure and strategy, this implies that, within broad limits set by the abstract logic of capitalism, its structural contradictions and its strategic dilemmas, capitalist development is nonetheless open. Particular trajectories and sequences of capitalist development are always mediated and transformed through specific social forces acting in specific institutional contexts or conjunctures. This openness invalidates attempts to periodise capitalism's past development or predict its destiny as if these were connected by a pregiven logic. But it does not mean that the succession of stages (or phases) is purely accidental. My task below is to explore the contingent necessities of capitalist development.
AB - This chapter addresses three issues: the general nature of periodisation; alternative criteria for periodising capitalism; and the contradictions of Atlantic Fordism and after-Fordist economies. My analysis rests on a 'strategic-relational' approach. Emphasising the interplay of structure and strategy, this implies that, within broad limits set by the abstract logic of capitalism, its structural contradictions and its strategic dilemmas, capitalist development is nonetheless open. Particular trajectories and sequences of capitalist development are always mediated and transformed through specific social forces acting in specific institutional contexts or conjunctures. This openness invalidates attempts to periodise capitalism's past development or predict its destiny as if these were connected by a pregiven logic. But it does not mean that the succession of stages (or phases) is purely accidental. My task below is to explore the contingent necessities of capitalist development.
KW - Fordism
KW - strategic relational approach
KW - Post-fordism
M3 - Chapter
SN - 033375316X
SP - 282
EP - 299
BT - Phases of Capitalist Development: Booms, Crises, and Globalization
A2 - Albritton, Robert
A2 - Itoh, Makoto
A2 - Westra, Richard
A2 - Zuege, Alan
PB - Palgrave
CY - Basingstoke
ER -