This paper examines the evolution of the capitalist labor process. The inherited Fordist structure involves the specialization and deskilling of work, the standardization of output, and the application of F. W. Taylor's top-down managerial approach. Through a case study of the Japanese car...

This paper examines trends in the unit prices of manufactured imports into the European Union (EU) in the period 1988--2002. This is undertaken at a high level of disaggregation, and it is this decomposition which we believe has important implications both for a range of bodies of economic...