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1002:2022:6.2 [2022/08/31 20:50] – [Families in global capitalism have responded to the breakdown of the Fordist social contract in different and unequal ways] Ryan Schram (admin)1002:2022:6.2 [2022/09/01 16:31] (current) – [References and further reading] Ryan Schram (admin)
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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, unequal roles (Adkins 2016; see also Pateman [1988] 2018).   * The Fordist social contract is also a specific “sexual contract” between men and women, who must play distinct, interdependent, unequal roles (Adkins 2016; see also Pateman [1988] 2018).
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   * Kinship in the Fordist “private” domain of the nuclear family is still, as Carsten might say, something people do; it’s invisible to the rest of the world since doing kinship is seen as strictly women’s work.   * Kinship in the Fordist “private” domain of the nuclear family is still, as Carsten might say, something people do; it’s invisible to the rest of the world since doing kinship is seen as strictly women’s work.
-  * 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 making kinship (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).
  
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 Colen, Shellee. 1995. “‘Like a Mother to Them’: Stratified Reproduction and West Indian Childcare Workers and Employers in New York.” In //Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction//, edited by Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, 78–102. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. Colen, Shellee. 1995. “‘Like a Mother to Them’: Stratified Reproduction and West Indian Childcare Workers and Employers in New York.” In //Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction//, edited by Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, 78–102. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.
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 +Florida, Richard L., and Marshall M.A. Feldman. 1988. “Housing in US Fordism*.” //International Journal of Urban and Regional Research// 12 (2): 187–210. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.1988.tb00449.x.
  
  
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