Taylor-Fordism, Toyotism and news standard social struggle

Abstract

There is a great and important debate about the nature of the transition from taylor-fordism to toyotism. The different answers to this question puts different approaches for the actuality of the social fights based on work. The mentioned transition has contributed for the emersion of contestatory social movements (altermundialism) which are proposing the necessity of a new pattern for the social fights. This contestatory movement is inside the horizon of the new hegemony of the “flexible” bourgeois society. It is the result and the affirmation of this new hegemony which, for its turn, demonstrate, especially after the decade of 1960, the permanent defeat of the social fights of the work.