ILRLR 1845 Lecture Notes - Industrial Revolution, Business Plan, Mass Production
21 Jan 2023
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Third largest automotive manufacturer in the world behind toyota and gm. Ford moter company founded in 1903 in detroit michigan. Business plan only one part of his plan for society. Price of each fallen by more than half. Rise in production and decline in prices signaled greatest capitalist. 780360$ in 1916 transformation in entire industrial revolution. Key fordist ideas: machines should do more work, humans should do simpler. 1920 census marked more urban residence than rural residence for the first time. Worried about nature, he knew he contributed to urbanization. What if increasing power of machinery and industry could be turned towards other outcomes. Factories with machines and human machines could produce a new world, new heaven, and new earth. Goal was to ensure no man comes to know me. Attempted to build entire city in brazil fordlandia pacifist, suffragist by his own description. Also used large scale manufacturing like ford.
