A influência do Toyotismo na reestruturação do sistema capitalista: uma análise gramsciana - doi:10.5102/uri.v7i2.986

Abstract

This article is concerned to analyse the Toyotist way of production in the post-Fordist era. The intention is to prove that the model, since its origins, has similar characteristics to those that originated the Fordism in the United States and was fundamental in the substitution of the latter after its collapse to the post-Fordist model. The study presents the influence of the model in the socio-cultural, political and economical aspects on the Japanese society and, then, the replication of its elements beyond the borders of Japan. Furthermore, the Toyotism is here presented as the model that restructured the capitalist system and kept it in the core and the basis of the flexibilisation in the post-Fordist era. For that, I am going to apply Gramsci’s theoretical framework in the discussion believing that the author’s preoccupation with the extension of the transformation within the working environment influences also the social, political and economical spheres of the society. The analysis made by the author on the Fordism in the United States is going to be used as the framework to this study to interpret the Toyotism and its consequences in these spheres. The scrutiny contains productive elements, changes and characteristics of the workers and the influence of theses changes in governments’ policies. The starting point is the analysis of the Fordism in the United State and the birth of a new accumulation system since this model is the predecessor and the basis of the Japanese Toyotism. Then, the decline of the model and the rigidity crises will be in the focus in order to present the Toyotism, the flexibilisation of the production and the changes that this model brought to the world’s society and productive system.

Key words: Toyotism, Fordism, way of production, flexibilisation of the production