02455nam 2200553 a 450 991081813390332120240416220126.00-262-31292-11-299-22074-60-262-31291-3(CKB)2560000000098127(SSID)ssj0000834880(PQKBManifestationID)12365859(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000834880(PQKBWorkID)10989688(PQKB)10470587(MiAaPQ)EBC3339576(Au-PeEL)EBL3339576(CaPaEBR)ebr10661919(CaONFJC)MIL453324(OCoLC)828869164(EXLCZ)99256000000009812720120926d2013 uy 0engurm||||||||||txtccrAmerica's assembly line /David E. Nye1st ed.Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press20131 online resourceBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-262-52759-6 0-262-01871-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Context -- Invention -- Celebration -- Export -- Critique -- War and cold war -- Discontent -- Japanese challenge -- Global labor -- Conclusion.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.Assembly-line methodsUnited StatesAssembly-line methods670.42Nye David E.1946-140346MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818133903321America's assembly line4000921UNINA