GEOG 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Private Label, Steve Jobs, Textile Industry
7 Mar 2014
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Return to fordism and post-fordism for a moment: fordism and post-fordism (neo-fordism) represent the two regimes of accumulation that dominated the 20th century, fordism associated with organized capitalism; post-fordism associated with disorganized capitalism. Two outcomes of this: concentration involves elimination of small, weak firms in particular spheres of economic activity, centralization involves the merging of the resultant large enterprises from different spheres of economic activity to form giant. Conglomerate companies providing a diverse range of activities and products: capitalism eventually has to be grounded material, factory, etc, another way to externalize has been highlighted when discussing the. /hour in usa: 1960 less than 7% of clothing imported, 2007 90% is imported, globalization of production has resulted in complex set of commodity chains. Major clothing companies have most of their products manufactured through arrangements with independent suppliers i. e. liz clairborne nearly 350 around the world. Third italy: central and northeast italy thought of as a new industrial area.
