Look up: FORDISM

1. Fordism
   The system pioneered by Henry Ford, involving the introduction of the moving assembly line, and crucially linking methods of mass production to the cultivation of a mass market for the goods produced – in Ford`s case particularly his famous Model T Ford car.
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2. Fordism
   a system of economic regulation, characterized by the production of mass manufactured foods, for mass consumption, so called because the Ford motor company furnished a prototype of the techniques of factory organization and marketing. The term is also used to describe modern industrial societies of the West in the period 1945–75.
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3. Fordism
   an economic system based on mass assembly-line production, mass consumption and standardised commodities
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4. Fordism
   The American English expression Fordism goes back to Henry Ford, who invented mass production and perfected the assembly line method of manufacturing early in the 20th century....
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5. Fordism
   `Fordism`, named after Henry Ford, refers to various social theories about production and related socio-economic phenomena.--> It has varying but related meanings in different fields, as well as for Marxist and non-Marxist scholars. The essential meaning is that the worker must be paid higher wages ...
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