GGR221H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Post-Fordism, Paul Krugman, Social Reproduction
24 Sep 2017
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In the past weeks, we have been talking about different economic processes and roles of people in the economy. We can summarise those insights in terms of interdependencies. Growth can happen on a variety of scales and between scales (local, regional etc: also, people are workers and producers. But also, they are consumers and actors in life"s work of social reproduction and everyone have to negotiate these contradictory but interdependent roles. Division of labour can help us think about this type of interdependency. All interdependencies are important for economic geography: division of labour, technical and social connected and interdependent on one another because they are based on workers, technical (specialization) The technical division of labour developed by henry ford: in the fordist assembly line, one worker has a task and they do it repeatedly. And this increases efficiency by having people do the same thing over and over again: tdol also locates people socially in relation to one another.
