Supporting material

    Fordism: The modern past

Henry Ford on His Car Factory
Frederick Winslow Taylor on ‘scientific management’
Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels on industrial capitalism
Michel Foucault on the power dynamics in modern institutions
Going to school in Richmond, 1900
Keeping learners in their boxes

    Post-Fordism: More recent times

After Fordism: Piore and Sabel on flexible specialisation
Peters and Waterman, ‘In search of excellence’
Dewey on education for active workers
Richard Sennett on the new ‘flexibility’ at work

    Productive diversity: new learning

Daniel Bell on the post-industrial society
Yoneji Masuda on the information society
Peter Drucker on the new knowledge manager
Working at Google
Educating for the knowledge society
It’s our responsibility to engage them

Keywords

Fordism
Post-Fordism
Productive diversity
Technology
Management
Skills
Employment
Markets
Society

Knowledge processes

Experiencing the known
Experiencing the new
Conceptualising by naming
Conceptualising with theory
Analysing functionally
Analysing critically
Applying appropriately
Applying creatively

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