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IN WHAT WAYS IS 'POST-FORDISM' HELD TO DIFFER FROM 'FORDISM'
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IN WHAT WAYS IS 'POST-FORDISM' HELD TO DIFFER FROM 'FORDISM' Henry Ford, (born 1863- died 1947) founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903. In 1908 the company initiated the production of the Model-T (of which the company sold 15million) It was the first car of its kind to built using a new type of production, Fordism involves the mass production of consumer durables which are made on moving assembly line techniques operated with the semi-skilled labour of the mass worker. Before cars were produced by hand which was both time consuming and very expensive. The actual physical production of the car was also a problem due to numerous parts involved, the Model T took only 12.5 hours per car to be built from start to finish, a build time which would have been impossible to sustain on a continuos basis before. It was from this new process of the production line...
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