TY - BOOK
T1 - America's Assembly Line
AU - Nye, David Edwin
PY - 2013/2/15
Y1 - 2013/2/15
N2 - A social history of the assembly line, invented in 1913. Both praised as a boon to consumers and as a curse for workers, it has been satirized, imitated, and celebrated for 100 years. It has inspired fiction, comedy, cafeteria layouts, and suburban housing. It transformed industrial labor and provoked strikes and union drives in the 1930s, but became a symbol of victory in the Second World War and Cold War. Reinvented by Japan as "lean production" and then increasingly automated after 1990, it remains a cornerstone of production but no longer employs many workers, even as it evolves toward sustainable manufacturing.
AB - A social history of the assembly line, invented in 1913. Both praised as a boon to consumers and as a curse for workers, it has been satirized, imitated, and celebrated for 100 years. It has inspired fiction, comedy, cafeteria layouts, and suburban housing. It transformed industrial labor and provoked strikes and union drives in the 1930s, but became a symbol of victory in the Second World War and Cold War. Reinvented by Japan as "lean production" and then increasingly automated after 1990, it remains a cornerstone of production but no longer employs many workers, even as it evolves toward sustainable manufacturing.
KW - production line
KW - history of technology
KW - Cultural construction
KW - American studies
M3 - Monograph
SN - 978-0-262-01871-5
VL - 1
BT - America's Assembly Line
PB - MIT Press
CY - Cambridge, MA USA
ER -