Elementos para uma história econômica da rigidez e da flexibilidade na produção em massa
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https://doi.org/10.11606/1980-53572725bnecKeywords:
mass production, Fordism, rigidity, flexibility, OhnoismAbstract
In a supposedly paradoxical manner, Ohnoism represents a production system antagonistic to conventional mass production - Fordist - and is, at the same time, its unfolding. This can be viewed dividing the Fordist production in two phases. The first one, from 1913 until the immediate post - World War II, is characterized by standardized production founded on a potentially flexible technical basis. The next phase, depart from World War II, is characterized by the embodiment of the rigidity principle in the machine system. The production manner developed in Japan - mass flexible production - has the first phase of Fordism as an indispensable historical condition. Through Ohno the
potential flexibility became effective: a truly "Colombo's egg". The notion of a bifurcation after the first Fordist phase - rigidity versus flexible production - can contribute to the debate on the nature of Ohnoism.
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