Reddit reviews Fast Forward: Work, Gender, and Protest in a Changing World

I think it's more of a lame conspiracy theory than a real thing. For instance with American carmakers, they were hurting by the 1970s and it had nothing to do with their cars. They were hurting because they had to pay pensions. They were paying workers who didn't even work there anymore. Also, the American dollar was very strong compared to the Japanese yen which made it beneficial for manufacturers in Japan. But by the 1990s the Yen had risen in price to the point that was hurting companies profitability and they had to make cheaper cars.

The "source" for the explanation that you gave came from a book that's more of an activist piece than a legitimate piece of analysis.

I mean here's the source

This innovative, global feminist analysis of work and politics examines the diverse problems and related protests of women and men who labor to make ends meet in a rapidly-changing world. Within this fast-moving context, laboring people today engage in work outside of formal employment, try to obtain survival resources, mount a diverse array of often women-centered protests against firms and states, and try—on their own terms—to reinvent work and democratic political practices.

There is just too much political correct liberal nonsense there. It reads almost like a joke- caricature of your typical women's studies student . There is just so much comfy progressive global village feminist shit that it can't be taken seriously.

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This is an ambitious and thought-provoking study of changes in global work patterns over the last thirty years. Fast Forward lucidly analyzes the often hidden relationships, which link North and South and sustain privilege across local, regional and global differences of class, gender, colour and age. The authors see hope in the destabilization of capitalist institutions and the breakdown of oppressive gender relations

Cliffs Notes: The book was written not by anyone familiar with cars or technology, but rather an activist teaching women's studies.