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Compromising positions: emergent neo‐Fordisms and embedded gender contracts

2000; Wiley; Volume: 51; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1468-4446.2000.00235.x

1468-4446

Heidi Gottfried,

Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

ABSTRACT This paper adopts a regulation framework to chart the emergence of neo‐Fordism as a flexible accumulation regime and mode of social regulation. Neo‐Fordism relies on old Fordist principles as well as incorporating new models of emergent post‐Fordisms; old and new social relationships, in their particular combination, specify the trajectory of national variants. I argue that Fordist bargains institutionalized the terms of a compromise between labour, capital and the state. These bargains embedded a male‐breadwinner gender contract compromising women's positions and standardardizing employment contracts around the needs, interests and authority of men. A focus on compromises and contracts makes visible the differentiated gender effects of work transformation in each country.