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Modern Times

In: The History of Work

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  • Richard Donkin

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In 1909 a fully equipped Model T Ford tourer cost $950. In 1914 it cost $490, and in 1916 it cost $360. The earliest of these cars were produced by teams of assembly workers putting them together in one spot. In that first year the company made 13,840 cars. In 1914, when the car had begun to move along an assembly line, Ford made 230,788, and in 1916 it made 585,388. In even years the motorcar had come of age. So had the conveyor-belt system of production that would be lampooned so effectively by Charlie Chaplin in the opening sequences of his 1936 film Modern Times.

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  • Richard Donkin, 2010. "Modern Times," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The History of Work, chapter 0, pages 146-159, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-28217-9_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230282179_11
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