But why stop there? All of American education has come to resemble Henry Ford's assembly line. Students receive a standardized education. Teachers work as quickly as possible as the product moves ...

At the same time, however, today’s growing knowledge-worker class has been quick to label the assembly line as mindless drudgery, while they rush to identify with greater intellectual ...

A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: She started working at GM in 2012. ADELPHIA LYLES: I am a regular assembly-line worker. I work in the trim department. You have your different departments of your plant ...

Credit Henry Ford, who set up an assembly line in 1908 to manufacture his Model T cars. Before, workers would assemble a product (or a large part of it) in place, often with one worker completing ...

From 100 to 1,000 Model Ts a day While piece work was a time-honored tradition and the moving assembly line had already transformed the meatpacking industry in Chicago and Cincinnati, it was Ford ...

Forget the Model T—Ford’s real innovation was the moving assembly line. It didn’t just usher in the age of the car; it changed work forever. He first fully implemented his innovation on ...

Ford has a pilot project which could pave the way for humans and robots to eventually work hand-in-hand in ... job that keeps workers on the assembly line for seven to eight hours.