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Social Impact of the Assembly Line

Henry Ford's Goal

  • 1907 - Affordable car announcement (pbs.org, 1)

The Model-T

The Assembly Line

Workers' Salary

Virtuous Circle of Growth

Large Economic Growth

Middle Class

  • 1913
  • First major business figure to do so (Smith, 17)
  • Assembly line helped create it (Smith, 15)
  • Many followed his example
  • Got idea from meat-packing factory (pbs.org, 10)
  • Working citizens
  • Produced cars at a rapid rate
  • Vast majority of the nation today
  • Could sell cars cheap but still profit (pbs.org, 16)
  • $300 by 1928 (Trueman, 19)
  • 1945 - 1973
  • Very simple and sturdy design (pbs.org, 3)
  • 1914 - over doubled to $5 per day
  • Boom in auto industry (Trurman, 25)
  • Makes business secure; workers = customers (Smith, 13)
  • Virtuous circle of growth idea popularity
  • Still not cheap enough for Ford

Works Cited

Article about Ford increasing worker pay. Digital image.

Wisestep.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Dec. 2013. <http://www.wisestep.com/Images/ArticleImages/henry%20ford%20gold%20rush.jpg>.

"Ford Installs First Moving Assembly Line." PBS. PBS,

1998. Web. 7 Dec. 2013.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dt13as.html

Henry Ford. Digital image. Inventions of the 1800s. N.p., n.d. Web. 10

Dec. 2013. <http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT-PYRtXe21wymmF8ZDVQ5HzQbg2rIThO1hApILvTkfmXoxreYF>.

Model-T. Digital image. History of the Roaring Twenties. N.p., n.d.

Web. 10 Dec. 2013. <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xEdRg-6CKJM/TA_s7Em4KFI/AAAAAAAAAGw/B5iiBM1IQns/s1600/model-t.gif>.

Smith, Hedrick. "When Capitalists Cared." Nytimes.com. The

New York Times, 2 Sept. 2012. Web. 8 Dec. 2013.

<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/opinion/henry-ford-when-capitalists- cared.html?_r=0>.

Trueman, Chris. "America in the 1920's." America in the 1920's.

N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Dec. 2013. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/America_economy_1920s.htm

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/henry-fords-assembly-line turns-100/

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