Open Access»Vernetzte Produktion« und »post-fordistische« Reproduktion
Author(s) -
Boy Lüthje
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
prokla
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2700-0311
pISSN - 0342-8176
DOI - 10.32387/prokla.v28i113.830
Subject(s) - restructuring , fordism , division of labour , argument (complex analysis) , industrial sociology , centrality , context (archaeology) , german , politics , production (economics) , industrial relations , sociology , work (physics) , political science , economy , economic system , economics , management , engineering , market economy , paleontology , biochemistry , chemistry , history , mathematics , archaeology , macroeconomics , combinatorics , law , biology , mechanical engineering
The article reviews recent debates on production networks in political economy and labor sociology. The argument draws upon the findings of an extended empirical study of production strategies, supplier networks, and labor relations in the computer industry of California's »Silicon Valley«. The paper emphasizes the centrality of manufacturing work in today's information technology industry and discusses the implications of the recent restructuring of industry organization and work in this sector for critical approaches as developed in U.S. industrial geography, theories of the »new international division of labor«, European and German industrial sociology, and race and gender studies. A theoretical framework for an integrated analysis of the political economy of »post-fordist« production networks is developed from the context of French regulation theory.