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Originally Posted by shasta  Ford practically invented the modern runway assembly system which is terrible for the workers. Its repetitive nature is inhumane and damaging to the worker. It also reduces the worker to a robot. Before ford people could say "I build cars", after ford people could only say "I put the left door panel on cars". I dont know ford personally so I wont comment on his character, but I will say that he set forth an assembly line system that devalues the working man.
Sorry to break your balls but I just read an article on the philosophy of the modern factory so I felt I had to point this out. |
This is true, his idea of the assembly line was purely an engineering effeciency to give people more cars in less wait time. His managers for the assembly line were brutal to the employees untill complaints went directly to henry ford and he saw for himself what the assembly lines were doing to the assemblers, he then raised the wages to 5dollars a day for 8hour days(it use to be $2.50 a day for 10hours aday) , he was the first with the standard 8hours day still used today. with this an overwhelming amount of people wanted to work there, causing a mini riot. and some discouragement agaisnt the company. but bottom line ford reconized the flaws to assembly lines and was very sympethic to his employees, even up till now ford has been very generous to its employees
edit: a majority of the assembly lines still use 10hour days and were just as brutal as always, because the owners saw great numbers from this and the workers had no choice but to keep employed by them, since most of the businesses thought fords 8hour day shift was too costly for the company