America S Assembly Line

Author : David E. Nye
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780262527590

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America's Assembly Line by David E. Nye Pdf

From the Model T to today's "lean manufacturing": the assembly line as crucial, yet controversial, agent of social and economic transformation. The mechanized assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is the most familiar form of mass production. Both praised as a boon to workers and condemned for exploiting them, it has been celebrated and satirized. (We can still picture Chaplin's little tramp trying to keep up with a factory conveyor belt.) In America's Assembly Line, David Nye examines the industrial innovation that made the United States productive and wealthy in the twentieth century. 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 also transformed industrial labor. By 1980, Japan had reinvented the assembly line as a system of “lean manufacturing”; American industry reluctantly adopted the 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.

Author : Charles R. Walker,Robert H. Guest,Arthur N. Turner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351669184

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The Foreman on the Assembly Line by Charles R. Walker,Robert H. Guest,Arthur N. Turner Pdf

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 THE FOREMAN AND THE PRINCIPLES OF MASS PRODUCTION -- 3 THE FOREMAN AND THE WORKER -- 4 THE FOREMAN AND MANAGEMENT -- 5 THE FOREMAN AND PRODUCTION -- 6 THE FOREMAN AND QUALITY -- 7 THE FOREMAN MEETS EMERGENCIES -- 8 A FOREMAN'S DAY -- 9 PROFILE OF A FOREMAN -- 10 MASS PRODUCTION AND THE INDIVIDUAL -- 11 MASS PRODUCTION AND THE GROUP -- 12 THE PROBLEM IN PERSPECTIVE -- SUPPLEMENT -- A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Author : Elizabeth Esch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520960886

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The Color Line and the Assembly Line by Elizabeth Esch Pdf

The Color Line and the Assembly Line tells a new story of the impact of mass production on society. Global corporations based originally in the United States have played a part in making gender and race everywhere. Focusing on Ford Motor Company’s rise to become the largest, richest, and most influential corporation in the world, The Color Line and the Assembly Line takes on the traditional story of Fordism. Contrary to popular thought, the assembly line was perfectly compatible with all manner of racial practice in the United States, Brazil, and South Africa. Each country’s distinct racial hierarchies in the 1920s and 1930s informed Ford’s often divisive labor processes. Confirming racism as an essential component in the creation of global capitalism, Elizabeth Esch also adds an important new lesson showing how local patterns gave capitalism its distinctive features.

Author : Ben Hamper
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780446554039

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Rivethead by Ben Hamper Pdf

The man the Detroit Free Press calls "a blue collar Tom Wolfe" delivers a full-barreled blast of truth and gritty reality in Rivethead, a no-holds-barred journey through the belly of the American industrial beast.

Author : John Bankston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Assembly-line methods
ISBN : 1584151730

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Henry Ford and the Assembly Line by John Bankston Pdf

Examines the life and accomplishments of Henry Ford who, among other things, is credited with inventing the assembly line, which changed not only the automotive industry but all industries.

Author : Angela Royston
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508146278

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Henry Ford and the Assembly Line by Angela Royston Pdf

Henry Ford changed the way products were made using his breakthrough idea of utilizing the assembly line. Readers will love learning about the life of this amazing inventor who made cars available to Americans everywhere. This book covers Ford’s early life and work as an engineer. It also highlights Ford’s many experiments and inventions, emphasizing the Model T and how the assembly line worked. This book is a great addition to STEM and history curricula, as it covers both subjects through an exciting biographical scope. Readers will connect to Ford’s life story through authentic photographs, engaging text, and an accessible timeline.

Author : Robert E. Weir
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1193 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216168140

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Workers in America [2 volumes] by Robert E. Weir Pdf

This encyclopedia traces the evolution of American workers and labor organizations from pre-Revolutionary America through the present day. In 2001, Robert E. Weir's two-volume Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor was chosen as a New York Public Library Best in Reference selection. Weir recently revised this groundbreaking resource, resulting in content that is more accessible, comprehensive, and timely. The newest edition, Workers in America: A Historical Encyclopedia, features updated entries, recent court cases, a chronology of key events, an enriched index, and an extensive bibliography for additional research. This expansive encyclopedia examines the complete panorama of America's work history, including the historical account of work and workers, the social inequities between the rich and poor, violence in the Labor Movement, and issues of globalization and industrial economics. Organized in two volumes and arranged in A–Z order, the 350 entries span key events, collective actions, pivotal figures, landmark legislation, and important concepts in the world of labor and work.

Author : Sam H. Schurr,Calvin C. Burwell,Warren S. Devine,Sidney Sonenblum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780313036392

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Electricity in the American Economy by Sam H. Schurr,Calvin C. Burwell,Warren S. Devine,Sidney Sonenblum Pdf

Electricity has penetrated deeply into virtually every aspect of American life, be it in industry, the home, or in the rapidly growing commercial and service sectors. This book documents and analyzes the existence of a strong, and growing, synergy between technological progress and the use of electrified production techniques in the United States during the twentieth century. The authors use two types of information in their work: case studies of the ways in which technological progress in particular industries and economic sectors has depended upon the adoption of electrified methods of production and aggregative long-term national economic statistics that measure the changing relationship over time between increases in the use of electricity and other factor inputs and the growth in industrial productivity. Eleven of the book's thirteen chapters cover the case studies, while the remaining two chapters and the statistical appendix contain the broad quantitative findings and supporting data. In their analysis, the authors address three inter-related questions from a long-term evolutionary perspective: Why has electricity's share of total energy risen so sharply over the years? How has this rise been related to productivity growth? and Why has the rise in electricity led to long-term improvements in the efficiency of overall energy use despite the thermal energy losses sustained when fuels are converted into electricity? The answer to these questions, they contend, is the technological progress represented by electrified production technologies, and in the new ways of organizing production that are now possible. The different ways in which electrical energy has been put to work, and with what results, are examined in the various case studies presented, and further documented in the aggregative statistical analysis. This study reveals the important role that the electrification of production operations has played in supporting productivity growth in manufacturing and other economic sectors in the past, and the important part that it can continue to play in the future. This book will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers; those interested in productivity issues, energy policy, electricity in general, historians of technology, economic historians, and those interested in current technological issues. It will be a necessary acquisition for college and university libraries, as well as those individuals interested in energy, technology, economic growth, history, and the interfaces among them.

Author : Nikole Brooks Bethea
Publisher : Momentum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Assembly-line methods
ISBN : 1503816362

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The Invention of the Assembly Line by Nikole Brooks Bethea Pdf

Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the invention of the assembly line. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.

Author : David Hounshell
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 080183158X

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From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932 by David Hounshell Pdf

David A. Houndshell's widely acclaimed history explores the American "genius for mass production" and races its origins in the nineteenth-century "American system" of manufacture. Previous writers on the American system have argued that the technical problems of mass production had been solved by armsmakers before the Civil War. Drawing upon the extensive business and manufacturing records if leading American firms, Hounshell demonstrates that the diffusion of arms production technology was neither as fast now as smooth as had been assumed. Exploring the manufacture of sewing machines and furniture, bicycles and reapers, he shows that both the expression "mass production" and the technology that lay behind it were developments of the twentieth century, attributable in large part to the Ford Motor Company. Hounshell examines the importance of individuals in the diffusion and development of production technology and the central place of marketing strategy in the success of selected American manufacturers. Whereaas Ford was the seedbed of the assembly line revolution, it was General motors that initiated a new era with its introduction of the annual model change. With the new marketing strategy, the technology of "the changeover" became of paramount importance. Hounshell chronicles how painfully Ford learned this lesson and recounts how the successful mass production of automobiles led to the establishment of an "ethos of mass production," to an era in which propoments of "Fordism" argued that mass production would solve all of America's social problems.

Author : Dennis Abrams
Publisher : Facts On File
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Assembly-line methods
ISBN : 160413772X

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The Invention of the Moving Assembly Line by Dennis Abrams Pdf

"Though the automated assembly line seems the most logical and natural of ideas, its development took place over a long period of time. It would take Henry Ford and his dream of building an affordable Model T automobile to put all the pieces together. In doing so, Ford changed the world forever. The invention impacted prices, wages and demand; labor unions; and even popular culture. In The Invention of the Moving Assembly Line, learn how one simple invention helped to transform America and how its impact is still being felt today"--Publisher's web site.

Author : E. J. Salmon
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781426940620

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The Rise and Fall of Corporate America by E. J. Salmon Pdf

E.J. Salmon left Cuba with his sister at age fifteen, after the Communists confiscated his family's land. He arrived in the United States poor, but he was eager to participate in an economic system that would help his family prosper again. But today, the U.S. economy is in bad shape, and it could get worse. A nation that was once the greatest and most powerful in the world has been shaken to its core, and it could collapse. To prevent such a calamity, industry and government must work together. Salmon draws upon his experiences in Cuba and in the United States to encourage the people to turn things around. He considers the following: - How the failure of the Obama administration to learn lessons derived from the successful government initiatives of the Great Depression - Why the government's response to the current crisis has eliminated more jobs than it has created - How brazen and corrupt executives and politicians are destroying corporate America. Take steps to understand the problems confronting us and discover solutions to renew the partnership among business, government, and the people. It's not too late to reverse the course if you understand The Rise and Fall of Corporate America.

Author : Paul M. Swamidass
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780792386308

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Encyclopedia of Production and Manufacturing Management by Paul M. Swamidass Pdf

Production and manufacturing management since the 1980s has absorbed in rapid succession several new production management concepts: manufacturing strategy, focused factory, just-in-time manufacturing, concurrent engineering, total quality management, supply chain management, flexible manufacturing systems, lean production, mass customization, and more. With the increasing globalization of manufacturing, the field will continue to expand. This encyclopedia's audience includes anyone concerned with manufacturing techniques, methods, and manufacturing decisions.

Author : Thomas Adam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1366 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781851096336

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Germany and the Americas [3 volumes] by Thomas Adam Pdf

This comprehensive encyclopedia details the close ties between the German-speaking world and the Americas, examining the extensive Germanic cultural and political legacy in the nations of the New World and the equally substantial influence of the Americas on the Germanic nations. From the medical discoveries of Dr. Johann Siegert, surgeon general to Simon Bolivar, to the amazing explorations of the early-19th-century German explorer Alexander von Humboldt, whose South American and Caribbean travels made him one of the most celebrated men in Europe, Germany and the Americas examines both the profound Germanic cultural and political legacy throughout the Americas and the lasting influence of American culture on the German-speaking world. Ever since Baron von Steuben helped create George Washington's army, German Americans have exhibited decisive leadership not only in the military, but also in politics, the arts, and business. Germany and the Americas charts the lasting links between the Germanic world and the nations of the Americas in a comprehensive survey featuring a chronology of key events spanning 400 years of transatlantic history.

Author : Arthur G. Bedeian,William F. Glueck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000009285484

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Management by Arthur G. Bedeian,William F. Glueck Pdf