LEADER 02458nam 2200541 a 450 001 9910792079103321 005 20230803023623.0 010 $a0-262-31292-1 010 $a1-299-22074-6 010 $a0-262-31291-3 035 $a(CKB)2560000000098127 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000834880 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12365859 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000834880 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10989688 035 $a(PQKB)10470587 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339576 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3339576 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10661919 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL453324 035 $a(OCoLC)828869164 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000098127 100 $a20120926d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerica's assembly line$b[electronic resource] /$fDavid E. Nye 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cMIT Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-262-52759-6 311 $a0-262-01871-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContext -- Invention -- Celebration -- Export -- Critique -- War and cold war -- Discontent -- Japanese challenge -- Global labor -- Conclusion. 330 $aDavid 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. 606 $aAssembly-line methods$zUnited States 615 0$aAssembly-line methods 676 $a670.42 700 $aNye$b David E.$f1946-$0140346 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792079103321 996 $aAmerica's assembly line$93758349 997 $aUNINA