Rationalized production requires the elaboration of a new type of man
Evidence
In America rationalisation has determined the need to elaborate a new type of man suited to the new type of work and productive process. This elaboration is still only in its initial phase and therefore (apparently) still idyllic. It is still at the stage of psycho-physical adaptation to the new industrial structure, aimed for through high wages. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1067
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Core Fordist concept: the production process demands a psycho-physical reshaping of the worker, a new anthropology.
- XREF: Connects to biopolitics readings: the state/production shaping bodily capacity and subjectivity.
Related
- Fordist rationalisation creates a new human type through psycho-physical adaptation before hegemony. (similarity 0.89)
- Industrial rationalization of production requires rationalizing the sexual instinct (similarity 0.86)
- New work methods require a matching mode of living and thinking (similarity 0.82)
- A new conformism built from below on production enables genuine freedom (similarity 0.79)
- Fordism marks a forced passage from economic individualism to a planned economy (similarity 0.78)