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Fordism.
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Fordism This article looks at Fordism and the underlying themes of Fordism as a labour process and as a social model. It analyses Fordism by presenting Terry Wallace's opinions whilst drawing on a variety of sources. In the paper's first section it begins with a review of the evolution of the Fordist factory production system and moves on to discuss the application of Frederick Taylor's ideas to manufacturing; Fordism as a labour process. Wallace encapsulates Fordism as a labour process in three statements; "standardised production and interchangeable parts; the use of dedicated single purpose machine tools and mechanised flow line mass production [which incorporates the deskilling of workers]." Each of these statements is discussed in turn with great depth. The article next examines how Ford and Taylor sought to bring order onto the hectic and rapidly growing early twentieth-century factory floor. Fordism concentrated on routinizing the flow of production and Taylorism...
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