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America's Assembly Line

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

America's Assembly Line

By David E. Nye

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About the book

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 Ameri...Show more

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9780262527590

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MIT Press Ltd

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2015

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America's Assembly Line

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