Each worker was trained to do just one of these ... In 1913, they came together in the first moving assembly line ever used for large-scale manufacturing. Ford produced cars at a record-breaking ...
Just a few months after implementation of the assembly line workers began quitting in droves. Turnover at the Highland Park plant was an unsustainable 380 percent. In response, by January of 1914 ...
We are reminded of this sober fact today after learning that a Ford worker was killed this morning in an accident on the final assembly line at Ford's Wayne Stamping and Assembly Plant where the ...