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050 00 $aTS178$b.B54 1996
082 00 $a658.2/3$220
100 1 $aBiggs, Lindy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96018757
245 14 $aThe rational factory :$barchitecture, technology, and work in America's age of mass production /$cLindy Biggs.
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axiii, 202 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aStudies in industry and society ;$v11
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [171]-192) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tRationalizing Production in Nineteenth-Century America --$g2.$tIndustrial Engineers and Their "Master Machine" --$g3.$tThe Human Machine: Engineers and Factory Welfare Work --$g4.$tModernizing Factories in the Early Twentieth Century --$g5.$tThe Crystal Palace: The Ford Motor Company's Highland Park Plant, 1910-1914 --$g6.$tThe Rational Factory: Highland Park's New Shop, 1914-1919 --$g7.$tFord's Most Ambitious Machine: The River Rouge Plant, 1919-1935.
520 1 $a"In The Rational Factory, Lindy Biggs contends that the design of the factory was a crucial factor in the development of American mass production - one that has been overlooked by historians on industry and technology. This interdisciplinary study draws from the fields of business history, engineering, technology, and architecture, as well as on theories of modernity, in examining attempts to rationalize the factory and the system's impact on those who worked under it.
520 8 $aDesigned to address "the labor problem" and other inefficiencies, the rational factory eliminated large numbers of workers and forced those who remained to give up traditional work habits and to work systematically. At the same time, the new factories did allow for easier supervision of labor and increased worker efficiency, primarily through modern shop floor organization.".
520 8 $a"Biggs focuses on Henry Ford's model factories at Highland Park and River Rouge and analyzes the various design strategies Ford and his engineers employed to maximize output. Illustrated with photographs, floor plans, and "workflow" diagrams, The Rational Factory revisits Ford's contributions to mass production and deepens our understanding of American industrial society."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPlant layout.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85102758
650 0 $aMass production$zUnited States.
650 0 $aProduction engineering.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85107212
650 0 $aIndustrial efficiency$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008123333
830 0 $aStudies in industry and society ;$v11.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42023902
852 00 $bglx$hTS178$i.B54 1996