Critically evaluate whether we live in a Fordist, Neo-Fordist or Post-Fordist society.
Date Submitted: 04/09/2001 10:45:56
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 8 pages (2224 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 8 pages (2224 words)
When the new black Model-T came off the assembly line and started in Ford's plant in Highland Park (Detroit) 90 years ago, the human industrial society began to change. Looking the same as any previous models, this Model-T was built only in one and a half hours. The saved ninety percent of labour hour rapidly led to 'The First Industrial Divide' of the western world. Even today, how deeply this industrial revolution, the so-called Fordism, had …
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