Post-Fordism and its Discontents, edited by Gal Kirn, sits in that feral little space where industrial logic mutates but doesn’t disappear.

The shift from Fordist production—stable labour, mass manufacture, predictable rhythms—into fragmented, flexible, and increasingly precarious forms of work is treated here not as progress, but as a reconfiguration of control.

The collection moves across theory, politics, and lived economic conditions, tracing how post-Fordist systems reorganise time, subjectivity, and value. It tracks a layered continuation: old structures persisting under new language, new freedoms masking different kinds of constraint. It’s uneven in the way edited volumes often are, but that’s part of the point—the fragmentation it describes is reflected in its form.

Print-on-demand edition (Lulu.com), c. 2010. Paperback. Clean, solid copy with light general wear; typical of POD production.