Resurrecting Flexibility? A Reply to Schoenberger

In this paper I reply to Schoenberger's response to my original paper on the limits to flexibility as a viable strategy for firms to employ in responding to economic change. After summarizing the areas of apparent agreement between Schoenberger and myself, I proceed to clarify some misunderstandings as well as to reassert some remaining differences between us. I conclude that my paper and the ensuing exchange have served to bring more perspective and realism to the emerging debate on flexibility in the workplace, in society as a whole, and its geographical manifestations. However, I remain somewhat sceptical of the claim that we have entered an era of flexible accumulation.