post-capitalist society emerging?

Tony Evans tevans at adelaide.on.net
Tue Nov 30 16:28:34 PST 1999


In the debate on NUMMI and the Toyota Production System, Adler took the position that TPS was an advance for workers on the old assembly line and taylorism. Not a completely isolated position on the left, but of course on that was vigorously rebutted by Parker and Slaughter in Management by Stress.

Tony

michael perelman wrote:


> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > [Anyone know anything about Adler?]
>
> I knew Paul Adler briefly when I was taking a sabbatical at Stanford.
> He has published in leftish venues, such as Socialist Review and
> Politics and Society. He has done a lot of work on automation and roll
> of labor. He is also supposed the working on some research about
> Frederick Taylor.
> --
> Michael Perelman
> Economics Department
> California State University
> Chico, CA 95929
>
> Tel. 530-898-5321
> E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu



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