Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-401) and index.

part Part I Introduction -- chapter 1 INDUSTRIALIZATION AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT / Allen J. Scott -- part Part II A new period in capitalist development? -- chapter 2 FORDIST AND POST-FORDIST INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOR AND MONETARY REGIMES -- chapter 3 FORDISM AND POST-FORDISM: A CRITICAL REFORMULATION / Bob Jessop -- chapter 4 FLEXIBLE SPECIALIZATION VERSUS POST-FORDISM: THEORY, EVIDENCE, AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- chapter 5 THE JAPANESE MODEL OF POST-FORDISM / Makoto Itoh -- part Part III New technologies and the organization of industrial production -- chapter 6 THE REVITALIZATION OF MASS PRODUCTION IN THE COMPUTER AGE -- chapter 7 TECHNOLOGICAL TRAJECTORIES AND THE CLASSICAL REVIVAL IN ECONOMICS -- chapter 8 THE STRUCTURE OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION AND THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN FIRMS AND MARKETS -- part Part IV The territorial foundations of production systems -- chapter 9 TRUST, COMMUNITY, AND COOPERATION: TOWARD A THEORY OF INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS -- chapter 10 A REEXAMINATION OF THE ITALIAN MODEL OF FLEXIBLE PRODUCTION FROM A COMPARATIVE POINT OF VIEW -- chapter 11 INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND LOCAL INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS IN POSTWAR FRANCE -- chapter 12 LOCALIZED INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS IN FRANCE: A PARTICULAR TYPE OF INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM -- part Part V The incorporation of labor -- chapter 13 ALTERNATIVE ROUTES TO LABOR FLEXIBILITY / Guy Standing -- chapter 14 LABOR CONVENTIONS, ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS, AND FLEXIBILITY -- part Part VI Collective order and industrial policy in post-Fordism -- chapter 15 LEVELS OF POLICY AND THE NATURE OF POST-FORDIST COMPETITION -- chapter 16 DIVERGENT PATTERNS OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATION IN SILICON VALLEY -- chapter 17 CONCEPTUAL FALLACIES AND OPEN QUESTIONS ON POST-FORDISM -- chapter NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES.