ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the preceding chapters of this book. The book attempts to redress gender analysis, by incorporating elements of feminist theory concerned with labour markets into Post-Fordist theory, thereby raising a number of theoretical arguments with respect to gender relations. These theoretical arguments have been empirically tested by an examination of the introduction of one form of Post-Fordism - team working, in the Nottinghamshire clothing industry. By redressing the omission of gender relations from the restructuring debate in this way, the research findings outlined in the book fill gaps in existing research on both a theoretical and practical level. The book discusses the relative merits and drawbacks of the Institutionalist model of Flexible Specialisation and the Regulationists' theory of Post-Fordism. Five issues were outlined in the book which highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the two theoretical perspectives: production flexibility; labour flexibility; empirical evidence; regulation; and gender.
