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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: The post-Fordist public library: From Carnegie to Gates Abstract: This comparison of Andrew Carnegie and Bill Gates investigates how both philanthropists shaped America's public libraries in a direction consistent with the class interests of capital in their respective regimes. The analysis unfolds using the Regulation School's perspective on the parallel concepts of Fordism and post-Fordism as a means of theorizing monumental social change. As such, Carnegie's and Gates' philanthropies are read against capitalism's evolution as a historically continuous system of social and economic integration. Given that the purpose of Regulation School analysis is not just to stress the ever-changing capacities of capital for reinvention, but also to facilitate the articulation of alternative models for social and economic organization, an alternative prescription for the public library within post-Fordism is proposed. |
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