GEOG 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Lean Manufacturing, Vertical Integration, Consumerism
10 Dec 2017
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Lecture 19: the changing organization of industry (part 2) Mostly the workers who are in the large factories benefit: white, male workers. The geography of fordism (1: regional scale (us): mass production develops most in north american manufacturing belt (detroit, chicago, new york, cleveland, pittsburgh, global scale: fordism requires massive expansion of world trade and international investment. Both followed wwii and rebuilding of europe (marshall plan: us led effort, mandate to help reconstruct european war-torn economies: expansion of world trade allows, 1. Us surplus commodities to be absorbed overseas (more production of cars, civil airplanes, appliances. Mass produced for us domestic and european economies: 2. For new globalized sources of cheap raw materials (e. g. oil) for fordist production. The geography of fordism (2: fordism => international rules (i. e. international mode of social regulation). The undoing of fordism: international (2: international roots of the crisis, abrogation of bretton woods (1971) and capital controls: too many us $ circulating outside us.
