Fordism And Education Flashcards
Ford as a car brand and the influence in the workplace and the similarities they teach at school etc.
Who is the name of the person who created the car brand with the name, ‘Ford’?
Henry Ford.
What was ‘Fordism’?
adapted by Henry Ford.
what century did it emerge in?
Fordism is a system of mass production and consumption that emerged in the early 20th century.
Fordism:
What kind of lines does Fordism use to produce large quantities of identical products quickly and cheaply?
Assembly.
Fordism:
What kind of production methods does Ford use or try to imply?
what kind of work?
It focuses on efficient, standardized production methods.
Fordism:
What does Fordism do to its workers which eventually leads to mass production and mass consumption?
think about incentives.
Fordism also involves paying workers higher wages to afford the products they make, creating a cycle of mass production and mass consumption.
Fordism:
What does the higher paid wages do to the economy and what does it influence the practice of?
what kind of culture shown mostly by u/c?
what did it revoloutionise the approach to?
This approach revolutionized industries, particularly in car manufacturing, and influenced labor practices and consumer culture.
What or who was Ford’s competition in the 20th century?
Vulcan cars.
What was different about Vulcan and Ford cars in terms of production?
what made Ford ‘standardized for mass prod.’?
Vulcan cars were handmade, slow and costly.
Ford, made in the 1920s, were faster and cheaper and standardized for mass production.
What is mass production?
Making large amounts of the same product quickly and cheaply, usually using machines and assembly lines.
What is the benefit of using mass production?
It makes it accessible for people, especially those who can’t afford millions[£] of wealth.
It makes it widely availiable to people.
Fordism and it’s impact:
What did the change to Fordism do for car workers that previously worked with handmade methods?
what sort of things did they lose or gain?
Many suffered job losses.
Some got higher wages.
A few were dissatisfied and soon got bored.
There was an increase in employment due to the high production.
Before Fordism, workers had to adapt to a certain level to get to work for automotive companies.
What did they have to have in order to succeed?
High skill levels.
After Fordism, what kind of expectation were workers considered to have that may have reduced the expectations of employers?
They no longer needed high skills; low skill levels were accepted.
Fordism:
As a result, union workers began to arise. Why were they eventually banned in Ford?
what did Ford reject?
Ford and his management opposed organized labor in fear of corruption.
they were already used to the ‘new’ way of making things.
Education wise:
What does Hierachial organisation include and mean?
An organisation in which a instituition has a form of hierachy.
e.g school- teachers, workplace- managers.
