Here we examine the predominance of 'internal' subcontracting and distributed provisioning in post-Fordist economy, as distinct from simple 'external' trade and commodity exchange.
Specifically, we are concerned to identify emergent, distinctive **relations of production**.
Service level contracts, outsourcing, offshoring, hollowing out of corporations, distributed provisioning - notably, thro digital mediation.
- Legal-contractual forms: specification, measuring (forms of moderation-supervision), litigation.
> Why did this strategy kick in? Did it arise from digital means or was there a prior, autonomous driver? For example . .
> - **uneven development** of forces of production (costs of production, labour costs of production, material organisation of FoPs?) **across regions**? hence, opportunities for capital, to -bring down the socially necessary labour time? -launch new processes of accumulation by **enclosing** new fields of provision? -‘revolutionise’ constellations of FoPs through Schumpeterian 'creative destruction' (eg post-war Japan)?
>- An intention in the corporate class, to subvert and marginalise **organised labour** in ‘advanced’ (Fordist) regions? etc
>- Neoliberal strategy to expose *all practice everywhere* to the capitalist competitive market: -inserting the market within organisational/ institutional fields of practice by **subcontracting**/ outsourcing, coupled with -**deregulating** professional or public preserves, "for efficiency".