Fordist
- noun
- /ˈfɔrdɪst/
- Specialized
- Many factories have adopted Fordist principles to streamline their manufacturing processes.
- Fordist capitalism
- Fordist compromise
- Fordist era
Examples
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The Fordist compromise usually resulted in formal indexation of the productivity growth rate and the growth rate in real wages.
Academic text (1996) -
The new global economy comes in the wake of flexible, split, and high-tech manufacturing replacing old Fordist economies of scale and smokestack integrated production.
Academic text (1996) -
According to some analysts (for example, Mayer 1995), these movements developed in reaction to the Fordist regimes and to Labor's domination of opposition to those regimes.
Academic text (2001) -
And if the post-Fordist commodity has been produced partly in response to social diversification, whereas the Fordist one was a factor in the massification of both production and distribution, then maybe post-Fordism offers better opportunities for poaching its resources than Fordism did.
Academic text (1996) -
The gains from improvements in production and communication accrue to capital, while the third world laborers employed by first world firms get trapped in "Fordist" production lines, barren seedbeds for nourishing higher labor skills through on-the-job experience.
Academic text (1998) -
A Fordist believes that mass production can lead to economic stability and job security.
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The Fordist model was widely praised for its ability to produce goods efficiently and affordably.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Fordist = Ford (semi-transparent) = Ford + ist
Built from the proper name 'Ford' plus the agentive suffix '-ist'; the sense 'person who supports or works within Fordism' is derivable if the learner recognises the eponymous base and understands '-ist'.
Etymology
Fordist comes from the car maker Henry Ford plus the ending -ist, which means 'person who does'. A Fordist is therefore someone who supports or works in the assembly-line, mass-production way of making things.
