CCT490H5 Lecture Notes - Post-Fordism, Creative Class, Flextime
28 Nov 2013
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The first article basically sums up what creativity is, its roots and notions about creativity in the job field. These days whole governments have fallen in love with creativity as a means towards economic growth and social prosperity. The second article talks about a plethora of topics but specficially about why cultural industries have changed in terms of : Fordism ~ the use in manufacturing industry of the methods pioneered by henry ford, typified by large-scale mechanized mass production or. Vertical integration ~ a business that engages all of its production and circulation of goods. Ex newspaper companies that produce the paper as well as the paper that is used to produced the paper. Post fordism ~ post world war ii, when there was a crisis in profitability and where capitalists were seeking a solution, The theory that modern industrial production should change from the large-scale mass-production methods. Neoliberalism a politically based idea that emphasizes free.
