Assembly Line
Assembly Line

In the first part of the nineteenth century, a worker in a furniture shop might produce an entire chair and be considered a craftsman. Fifty years later, that same worker could be in a large woodworking factory and be responsible only for the production of one leg of that chair while others completed the rest. The factory gave more employment and produced more for a growing population but for the worker, the assembly line was more repetitive and his status as a craftsman diminished.
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