ABSTRACT
In Chapter Four, a range of empirical investigations were carried out in order to scrutinize those hypotheses relating to changes in labour markets and social structures in the transition from Fordist to Post-Fordist growth strategies that were raised in Section 3.2. In what follows I will interpret the most relevant results from a comparative perspective. Are those changes that we postulated on the basis of the theoretical discussion in Chapter Three indeed a matter of general trends in the sense that they remain empirically identifiable even after the influences that arise from particularly national trajectories have been scrutinized? What are the main differences between the national roads to Post-Fordism?
