@@ExpiredToast11 It's a problem of the video. If it was mono, RU-vid's video player would duplicate the audio. This is a problem of putting a mono track on a stereo track.
Every one was amazed by Model T assembly line. But the kinda support provided by supply chain management of Ford has not come to lime light. Simply superb.
Must have been amazing to buy a car for the average middle class citizen. The driving experience must have been sensational. I know these were slow, but it was great for the city transport.
I'm sure it changed everything, for a lot of people... a Model T can go 40 mph, which means you travel to a city FORTY MILES AWAY, in just one hour. That's not slow. That's very fast. Even today, traffic is intentionally slowed down so much that it's difficult to have an average speed of 40 mph while driving. Think about it. When you drive to the store or work, you spend half your time sitting at stop lights. Your average speed is probably 20 mph. People in Model Ts were probably going faster than you, in your Prius.
True story and revolutionary methods. But not an invention out of nil. Read about Frenchman Honoré le Blanc and the mass production of muskets for the Army during the French Revolution. Actually T. Jefferson tried to bring him to the US. Anyhow, his methods were adopted by Ely Whitney (yes, the one of the cotton processing machine), allowing the latter to earn a contract with the US Gvt. for 10.000 muskets in two years (fastest rate was 1.000 per year by the time).
I wonder what year the actual video was produced because the audio sounds like 1930-1940ish and the Model T was only produced from 1908-1927 also I noticed at the very end they still drove on the right side so it must be 1900s right?
mmm sort of a division of labor and because each laborer is so skilled at each specific task the company was able to push out millions and millions, vertical integration would be like owning every part required to build a product 🔋not just an essential portion such as lithium for the battery of an EV (electrical Volstead I'm sorry, vehicle) ho-ri-zon-taL
Then Henry Ford saw a roomful of men with adding machines and asked "What are they doing?" - - "They're counting the costs of all the parts and supplies, sir" "FIRE THEM ALL !!" said Henry . . . .
What a load of corporate propaganda. The assembly line predated Ford by almost 100 years. The moving assembly line predated Ford. It would be a lot more accurate to say Henry Ford hired some engineers away from the Chicago meat packing industry to design a moving assembly line for cars.
This all SOUNDS great, but imagine the wasted lives of those men. They were "specialists" only in a minor sense -- really just cogs in a giant, impersonal machine that produced boredom, alienation, and often injury -- at a minimum what we now know as repetitive motion injury, but often of an even more crippling kind. Anyone who lost a day of work to injury was summarily fired. The majority of line workers were new immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe, who spoke little English and lived in tiny hovels a stone's throw from the factory. Factory inspectors visited men's homes unannounced once or twice a year to see if they and their families practiced "cleanliness, orderliness, and a high moral standard" -- as determined by Henry Ford. Those who failed this inspection were put on probation, with a follow-up visit a month later. A second failure meant they were fired. Owning a non-Ford automobile was a firing offense as well. Turnover was high -- sometimes 25% per month -- prima facie evidence of the transition of the prior skills-based, craftsman-led, workshop economy to the 12-hour-a-day soulless hell depicted here. The Soviets made much of these industrial conditions in the revolutionary propaganda they 'ginned up during WWI, and for years afterward. Henry Ford -- the tinkerer turned narrow-eyed engineer turned technocrat mega-tycoon, neither knew nor cared to inquire about the long-term, distinctly negative personal and societal effects of his brainchild, the moving assembly line.
I notice, after 6 months that you still don't have a reply, as a person who has worked my whole adult life in factories all I can say is... you're right. I started off doing unskilled production line type work, it was back breaking and soul destroying. Thankfully I left and got trade qualified as a machinist and now do one off jobs, its high skill, higher pay and... easier. The fact remains that in the world of ours the hardest jobs are done for the lowest pay. Every time I have gotten a promotion the work has gotten easier. People at the top who go to College and start in management say they are paid more because they work harder. Frankly I don't think they actually know the meaning of the term work.
1. Ford didn't invent the moving assembly line, he was just the first to apply it automobiles. 2. What you say about factory work is true. Humans are made to hunt and gather, not stand in one place doing the same repetitive motion over and over all day. If you did that same thing in public without it being a job, someone would come along and put you in a mental hospital. However, if you really want back breaking work, try farming on the early twentieth century level. Continuous heavy work from sun up till sun down all spring and summer and fall to make a crop, just knowing that at least one year in ten you'll watch it wash away in a flood or whither away in a drought or lose it to grasshoppers or army worms. That's what 95% of people did before mass production. But at least under that system, most people understood business risk and didn't feel like they were somehow 'entitled' to a handout.
