Introduction

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Notes

[1] The Regulationists were by no means the first commentators to use the term ‘Fordism’ to designate the interrelationships between a mode of industrial production and its accompanying forms of social, political, and institutional organisation. The term was used by both Antonio Gramsci in the 1930s, in the section of his Prison Notebooks titled ‘Americanism and Fordism’ (see Gramsci, 1971), and in the early work of the Belgian socialist Henri De Man in the 1920s. For a more detailed account of the term's early uses, see Gambino (1996, pp. 21–22, n. 2).

[2] For a survey of the Regulation School's work on Fordism and Post-Fordism and of the criticisms this has elicited, see Jessop (2001b). For a more general survey of the range of work produced by the French Regulation School, as well as a representative sample of the criticisms that work has elicited, see Jessop (2001a). For a more detailed account of the theoretical premises on which the Regulationists work, see Boyer (2004).

[3] The seminal study of Fordism produced by the French Regulation School remains Michel Aglietta's Régulation et crises du capitalisme (see Aglietta, 1976).