NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Singer Corporation, James J. Couzens, Machine Tool
25 Nov 2017
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Prior to the assembly line, traditional assembly gang workers used to assemble. In fact, job training on an assembly line only took to one day. The mechanized assembly line process thus reduced need for number of workers and especially skilled workers. As a result, ford faced many labor problems when the assembly line was first introduced. High turnover rates of 380% in 1913 meant that the company had to hire 963 men to add 100 to its personnel. This high turnover rate was connected to greater unionization which could lead to even more strikes. Ford thus decided to introduce a number of new labor reforms. This means that despite this pretty good pay increase, there was still much unrest. This led to ford"s next solution: set wages at five dollars a day () This type of money, especially for relatively unskilled work, was a very important development in solidifying mass production effort:
