Mass Production and the U.S. Tire Industry
- 1 June 1987
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Economic History
- Vol. 47 (2) , 329-339
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700048099
Abstract
The study of mass production has been strongly influenced in recent years by two dissimilar bodies of work—that of Alfred D. Chandler and that of Harry Braverman and others who argue that mass production helped managers “deskill” and “control” industrial workers. The history of the U.S. tire industry between 1910 and 1930 underlines the value of Chandler's analysis and the limited applicability of the deskilling and control hypotheses.Keywords
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