... responsibilities diminishing. Assembly line work is unpleasant in a mass production environment. It is physically demanding, requires high levels of concentration, and can be excruciatingly boring. As a consequence, Ford experienced very high labor turnover, 380 percent in 1913. During post-Fordism, there is an emphasis on worker's co-responsibility and the labour market is flexible. Employees of a Fordism regime were employed full time, had job security and benefits. Post-Fordism employees are often part time or temporary, with no job security or benefits. Centrailised production and strong unions are key features of Fordism, compared with de-centralised production and weak unions associated with post-Fordism. Flexible production dramatically reduced the demand for unskilled labor. Flexible production requires numerate and literate workers, capable of a high degree of self-direction. As a consequence, the number of unskilled industrial workers in the developed world has been falling for nearly thirty years. Henry Ford operated a high ...

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