Fordism

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Americanism and Fordism.

Gramsci identifies the form of capitalism then emergent in the United States as marking a new historical phase and a new type of capitalist society, characterised by higher living standards for workers and a historically unusual level of discipline imposed by employers and state upon their working and personal lives.

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From a macro-economic perspective, the most important aspects of Fordism that Gramsci identifies are the automation of industrial production, the massive growth in economies of scale within the consumer economy and the heavy involvement of state institutions in managing large-scale industrial and communicative infrastructure.

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At the level of social, cultural and even the psychic level, Gramsci identifies the emergence of a new set of sensibilities amongst workers, for example, high levels of personal discipline and social conformity and a strictly gendered division of labour in the family.

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