... who puts in a bolt does not put on the nut; the man who puts on the nut does not tighten it". The assembly line turns a human craftsman into part of a machine. This dehumanizing process has also unfortunately greatly affected our society. Each worker on the line has a specific task to perform, repeatedly and monotonously for hours on end. The more specialized ... integrating production and consumption. Fordism can be seen to be a general pattern of social organization. This means the consumption of mass commodities in nuclear family households. Fordist society was an urban-industrial, "...

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