Examples of Fordism in the following topics:
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Efficiency
- Another system of efficiency during the Progressive Era was Fordism, "the eponymous manufacturing system designed to spew out standardized, low-cost goods and afford its workers decent enough wages to buy them."
- Although Fordism was a method used to improve productivity in the automotive industry, the principle could be applied to any kind of manufacturing process.
- Henry Ford and his senior managers did not use the word "Fordism" themselves to describe their motivations or worldview; however, many contemporaries framed their worldview as an "ism" and applied that name to it.
- Fordism's major success stemmed from the following three principles: