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14 juin 2022
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Consumer products Consumers' goods Goods, Consumer 20th century 1900s (Century) Nineteen hundreds (Century) Ebonite Vulcanite India rubber Caoutchouc Gum elastic Radio reception Radio receivers Radio-receiving apparatus Radios Industrial production Industry Factory buildings Mills (Buildings) Industrial plants Plants (Industrial buildings) Manufacturing plants Council of Europe countries Size, Economies of Economies of size Scale, Economies of Increasing returns Gasoline automobiles Cars (Automobiles) Autos (Automobiles) Motorcars (Automobiles) Assembly lines Production-line methods Child placingCiter ce document
Editorial Board, « The Rational Factory, Labour, and the Fordist Visual Imaginary », TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, ID : 10.58079/ut4u
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By Rick Halpern The first decades of the twentieth century were a remarkable period for heavy industry across much of North America and Europe. Mass production of goods such as rubber and steel – and consumer products like automobiles and radios – reached unprecedented levels. New technologies, most notably assembly lines, the adoption of interchangeable parts, and the redesign of factory buildings themselves, allowed not just a greater volume of production but economies of scale that transf...