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| * To be successful, mass production depends on the mass consumption of highly standardized goods, e.g. cars, home applicances. | * To be successful, mass production depends on the mass consumption of highly standardized goods, e.g. cars, home applicances. | ||
| * The Fordist industrial model is also a new social contract, a new normative idea of people’s entitlements and obligations as members of the society. | * The Fordist industrial model is also a new social contract, a new normative idea of people’s entitlements and obligations as members of the society. | ||
| - | * Mass production also depends on mass employment of low-skill labor, creating opportunities for greater social mobility and wealth accumulation (mostly for whites in the US). | + | * Mass production also depends on mass employment of low-skill labor, creating opportunities for greater social mobility and wealth accumulation (mostly for whites in the US; see Florida and Feldman 1988). |
| * Mass employment creates greater collective power for the labor movement, who claim more and more of a share of the profits of Fordist enterprise. | * Mass employment creates greater collective power for the labor movement, who claim more and more of a share of the profits of Fordist enterprise. | ||
| * The Fordist social contract is also a specific “sexual contract” between men and women, who must play distinct, interdependent, | * The Fordist social contract is also a specific “sexual contract” between men and women, who must play distinct, interdependent, | ||
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| * Even as the Fordist social contract collapses, people still adhere to this ideological representation of kinship as private. Women who work in dual-income households still do most if not all of the care work; they pull a “second shift” at home (Hochschild 1989). | * Even as the Fordist social contract collapses, people still adhere to this ideological representation of kinship as private. Women who work in dual-income households still do most if not all of the care work; they pull a “second shift” at home (Hochschild 1989). | ||
| - | ==== Families | + | ==== Families have responded to the breakdown of the Fordist social contract in different and unequal ways ==== |
| * Wealthy families commodify the acts of kinship by hiring domestic workers who work in the families’ homes, contributing to a system of “stratified reproduction” (Colen 1995). | * Wealthy families commodify the acts of kinship by hiring domestic workers who work in the families’ homes, contributing to a system of “stratified reproduction” (Colen 1995). | ||
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| - | Fraser, Nancy. (1997) 2013. “After the Family Wage: A Postindustriell | + | Florida, Richard L., and Marshall M.A. Feldman. 1988. “Housing in US Fordism*.” // |
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| + | Fraser, Nancy. (1997) 2013. “After the Family Wage: A Postindustrial | ||
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