America's assembly line

by Nye, David E.

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Title Statements

Full title :America's assembly line / David E. Nye [aut].

Summary

The assembly line—developed at the Ford Motor Company in 1913 for the mass production of Model Ts—first created and then served an expanding mass market. It transformed industrial labor and provoked strikes and union drives. During World War II and the Cold War, it was often seen as a bastion of liberty and capitalism. By 1980, Japan had reinvented the assembly line as a system of “lean manufacturing”; American industry adopted this new approach. Nye describes this evolution and the new global landscape of increasingly automated factories, with fewer industrial jobs in America and questionable working conditions in developing countries. A century after Ford’s pioneering innovation, the assembly line continues to evolve toward more sustainable manufacturing.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):MIT Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

Description:338 p. : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780262018715, 0262018713
oclc:ocn901797420
LC Classification:TS178.4

Subjects

Assembly-line methods economic production Economic, Social, and Cultural History … economische productie Economische, sociale en cultuurgeschied… fabricage geschiedenis History industrial methods Industrial workers Industrie Industriële economie industry innovaties Innovations Lopende band Machines manufacture North America productieprocessen