摘要：Like the ubiquitous prefix "post," "flexibility" has become a common buzzword of the 1980s in a wide variety of academic writing. The two are in fact often connected, for the essence of this "post" period - whether postmodern, post-fordist, or post-industrial - is said to be flexibility - flexible specialization, flexible accumulation,' flexible firm, labour market flexibility, the "Age of Flexibility." Essentially, the debate surrounding post-fordism flexibility has to do with the way firms, industries and indeed national economies and world capitalism are restructuring in this era of technological change, heightened international competition and rapidly changing markets.
