New national and international economic and social forces have reshaped national geographies in general and the characteristics of cities in particular, resulting in a range of diverse social and spatial outcomes. These outcomes, which include greater differentiation across, within and between metropolitan regions and cities, have become a feature of the economic and social forces associated wi...

In 1885, Frederick W. Taylor presented a paper to the Society BLOCKINof BLOCKINMechanical BLOCKINEn-gineers in which s/he proposed a method for analyzing the timing and movements of work. In 1913, Henry Ford and his partners perfected an assembly line in the Highland Park factory adopting Taylor's principles. In Taylor's framework and Ford's factory, the timing and movements of work were determ...

Lifelong learning and social inclusion policies are now high on the policy agendas of both the European Union and national states in Europe. The push for such policies arises from changes in the labour market and economy and globalisation in postindustrial society. Skills have to be constantly updated and new ones acquired. In the post-Fordist era people can expect to have a series of jobs perh...

By drawing on Kideckel (2002) and Todorova and Gille (2010), this article seeks to (1) explore forms of workers’ new subalternity in the new capitalist regimes in East Germany and Hungary, and (2) argue that nostalgia for the socialist regimes functions as a means and claim of the “little man” to express social criticism. Under state socialism, workers constituted the emblematic class of the re...

To what extent organized employers and trade unions support social policies is contested. This article examines the case of work-family (WFPs), which have surged to become a central part welfare state. In that expansion, joint role has largely been disregarded in comparative political economy literature. The posits shift from Fordist knowledge economies impetus for partners’ WFPs. If women make...

Simon Clarke played an unrivalled role in the intellectual trajectory of his former students and significantly shaped research field sociology post-Soviet Russia. While work appears comprised two distinct lines inquiry, essential unity Simon’s project may be appreciated by zooming on factors that motivated entirety work, such as ethical orientation a desire to understand mediations social relat...

In recent years, British science policy has seen a significant shift 'from deficit to dialogue' in conceptualizing the relationship between science and the public. Academics in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) have been influential as advocates of the new public engagement agenda. However, this participatory agenda has deeper roots in the political ideology of...

Abstract The polarizing tendency of politically leaned social media is usually claimed to be spontaneous, or a by-product underlying platform algorithms. This contribution revisits both claims by articulating the digital world and rules derived from capitalist accumulation in post-Fordist age, transdisciplinary perspective human exact sciences. Behind individual freedom, there rigid pyramidal h...

Since the 1970s but with greater intensity in 1980s, strong, social, economic, and cultural transformations have led to post-Fordist or post-productivist countryside determining what researchers identify as “rural restructuring” [...]