THE CHANGINGS IN THE EU’S COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY: FROM FORDISM TO POST-FORDISM
European Union; Common Agricultural Policy; Fordism; post-Fordism;
Neoliberalism.
This master's dissertation aims to analyze the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the changes that have occurred in its structure since its creation in 1962, in the Fordist era, to the post-Ford era, with the aim of discovering whether it still remains the same, whether it really works, which countries it covers, who it benefits, and what lessons can be learned from it. This topic is of great relevance, given that it is a subsidized and protectionist public agricultural policy, which projects intense internal and external pressures on it from defenders of the free market and the neoliberal agenda. Thus, the research will be carried out through a critical and analytical study, tracing a timeline of the European Union before its creation, as European Regional Integration, until the present day, analyzing the changes within the regional and international context. To this end, it will use the exploratory technique and the comparative mode between one period and another, within the social
welfare policies of Fordism until the beginning of its reforms, and in the current European neoliberal context, using bibliographical research and consultation of primary and secondary sources. In short, it is clear that the European Union underwent an inflection from Fordism to post-Fordism, which is also reflected in its common agricultural policy based on resistance, disputes and transformations in its essence.