Restructuring Teachers’ Labor: ‘Troubling’ Post-Fordisms

Abstract

The characteristics of the industrializing era of world capitalist development — a highly differentiated workforce, strong unions, powerful states that guarantee economic security and promoted economic growth-no longer describe our new era. Scientifically based technological change in the midst of sharpened internationalization of production means that there are too many workers for too few jobs, and even fewer of them are well paid. (Aronowitz & DiFazio, 1994, p. xii)