FORDISM

POSTFORDISM

Mass production of homogeneous goods	Small batch production
Uniformity and standardization	Flexible and small batch production of a variety of product types: the modular factory
Large buffer stocks and inventory	"Zero inventory" production
Resource driven	Demand driven
Vertical and (in some cases) horizontal integration	(Quasi-) vertical integration subcontracting
Functional spatial specialization (centralization/decentralization)	Spatial clustering and agglomeration

Single task performance by worker	Multiple tasks
High degree of job specialization	Elimination of job demarcation
Emphasis on diminishing worker's responsibility	Emphasis on worker's co-responsibility
Primary and secondary labor markets: white-collar and unionized labor vs. everyone else	Flexible labor markets: self-programmable vs. generic labor

Regulation/Keynesianism	Deregulation/Neoliberalism
Rigidity	Flexibility
Collective bargaining	Division/individualization, local or firm-based negotiations
Socialization of welfare (the welfare state)	Privatization of collective needs and social security
Centralization	Decentralization and sharpened interregional/intercity competition

Norms of social solidarity: job security, political entitlement (e.g., welfare)	Norms of free market individualism: "There is no such thing as society" (Thatcher)
Class politics	Identity politics
Mass consumption of consumer durables: the consumption society	Individualized consumption: "yuppie" culture
Modernism	Postmodernism