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UNINA9910818133903321 |
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Autore |
Nye David E. <1946-> |
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Titolo |
America's assembly line / / David E. Nye |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-262-31292-1 |
1-299-22074-6 |
0-262-31291-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Assembly-line methods - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Context -- Invention -- Celebration -- Export -- Critique -- War and cold war -- Discontent -- Japanese challenge -- Global labor -- Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 -- Publisher. |
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