Flexible production is an outcome of globalisation of work. It is also known as.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Post-Fordism
Option (1) Post-Fordism — Correct. With globalisation, production moves wherever labour is cheaper, as Nike’s shoes moved from Japan to South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and India. Instead of mass production of goods at a centralised location, the world has moved to a system of flexible production at dispersed locations, called post-Fordism.
Option (2) Fordism — Incorrect. Fordism is the older system of mass production of goods at a centralised location, the very system that flexible production replaced.
Option (3) Taylorism — Incorrect. Taylorism is the system invented by Taylor, involving break up of work under management control. It is about how work is divided and timed inside a factory, not about spreading production across countries.
Option (4) Capitalism — Incorrect. Capitalism, as Marx understood it, is a system of commodity production, or production for the market, through the use of wage labour. It is the economic system as a whole, under which both Fordist and post-Fordist production take place.
NCERT (2025-26): “Globalisation and a New International Division of Labour … This flexibility of labour often works in favour of the producers. Instead of mass production of goods at a centralised location (Fordism), we have moved to a system of flexible production at dispersed locations (post-Fordism).” “…Taylorism: System invented by Taylor, involving break up of work under management control.…” |