Ford's assembly line cut the Model T's price by two-thirds and created the template for industrial mass production. The $5 day helped invent the consumer middle class.
The automobile economy it unleashed reshaped cities, oil and labor worldwide.
The moving assembly line: mass production and the middle-class consumer.
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Ford's assembly line cut the Model T's price by two-thirds and created the template for industrial mass production. The $5 day helped invent the consumer middle class.
The automobile economy it unleashed reshaped cities, oil and labor worldwide.
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