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12-08-2009 #1
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Cool video of the Ford Model T assembly line
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look at all the PEOPLE WORKING!!!!
what a concept
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thats awsome it's all done with americans earning a living for there family intresting concept.just think how many that were working on the assembly line bought these cars.maybe gm and others could learn somthing from this!giving people a decent wage and people will buy there cars.
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HUH??!! Maybe we could learn from this?
Originally Posted by E.rodz
thats awsome it's all done with americans earning a living for there family intresting concept.just think how many that were working on the assembly line bought these cars.maybe gm and others could learn somthing from this!giving people a decent wage and people will buy there cars.
WE'RE THE ONES THAT STARTED IT!!!
What the hell are you talking about??!!!Last edited by trapin; 12-09-2009 at 05:17 AM.
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what I am talking about is that all the car mfgs.are shipping everything out of our country to be sub. assembled and the people that were once employed by companies like the big auto makers don't have jobs and the cash to buy there own products.the part about all the people is definitly somthing the next generation needs to learn about. Originally Posted by trapin
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I maybe totally wrong but my guess is that it was still a luxury item or a work vehicle. I doubt if hardly anyone on the assembly line could have afforded one? Originally Posted by E.rodz
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Holy Crap!! Talk about your repetitive-motion injuries! Those guys putting the spokes in the wheels and the guys filing the spokes on the completed wheels must have been junk after a few years of doing that!
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Hence the demand for the high wages. Even today a person is extremely lucky if they can spend thirty years on an assembly line without coming away with a permanent injury or disability. Originally Posted by cheapta
It would be interesting to to see how $5.00 a day compares to today's dollar (considering the effects of inflation).
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Tons of inaccuracies in that video...
The $5/day work-day was huge for the time... competitors laughed at Henry and said he'd go bankrupt paying his workers that much. What happened was that people came from all over the U.S. to work there, and worked there long enough to buy a Model T. Ford got his money back anyway, and they stayed there longer than the typical assembly-line worker would have, so they became more proficient and worked faster with less time spent training. It was ALL about being efficient...
To get the $5/day you had to be a non-jewish white male. I think there was an age bracket too... Good luck trying that today.
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Not sure how that is inaccurate in what the video said??
Though to be fair the $5 a day was nearer to the end of the Model T production and was because turnover was really high so Ford wasn't offering $5 a day out a desire to create a stronger middle class lol. The did it out of a need to attract workers and keep them. And it worked. Once they offered such a high wage like that they did attract workers from all over and retention went up.Please Subscribe to the AutoXandTrack YouTube Channel
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The innacurracies were in far more than just that part. ;) Many of the "facts" about the cars themselves were pretty far off. Originally Posted by Chad-1stGen
The $5/day started in 1914 IIRC, only a year after the introduction of the moving assembly-line.Derek Kiefer,
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Jay Leno said once 'it used to be labor was cheap and technology was expensive, now tech is cheap and labor is expensive' (or something like that).
there is NO WAY you could sell a product today affordably and at a profit while at the same time employing all those workers.Keith C.
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