Beschreibung:
The transition from socialism in Eastern Europe is not an isolated event, but part of a larger shift in world capitalism: the transition from Fordism to flexible (or neoliberal) capitalism. Using a blend of ethnography and economic geography, Elizabeth C. Dunn shows how management technologies like niche marketing, accounting, audit, and standardization make up flexible capitalism's unique form of labor discipline. This new form of management constitutes some workers as self-auditing, self-regulating actors who are disembedded from a social context while defining others as too entwined in social relations and unable to self-manage.
Chapter 1. The Road to CapitalismChapter 2. Accountability, Corruption, and the Privatization of AlimaChapter 3. Niche Marketing and the Production of Flexible BodiesChapter 4. Quality Control, Discipline, and the Remaking of PersonsChapter 5. Ideas of Kin and Home on the Shop FloorChapter 6. Power and PostsocialismNotesBibliographyIndex