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America's assembly line [[electronic resource] /] / David E. Nye



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Autore: Nye David E. <1946-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: America's assembly line [[electronic resource] /] / David E. Nye Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
Disciplina: 670.42
Soggetto topico: Assembly-line methods - United States
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Context -- Invention -- Celebration -- Export -- Critique -- War and cold war -- Discontent -- Japanese challenge -- Global labor -- Conclusion.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: America's assembly line  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-262-31292-1
1-299-22074-6
0-262-31291-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910792079103321
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