The Model T disrupted personal transportation when ... did it and how — when the company introduced a moving assembly line and raised worker pay to $5 a day, resulting in a huge migration ...

Then he divided the labor by breaking the assembly of the Model T into 84 distinct steps. Each worker was trained to ... in the first moving assembly line ever used for large-scale manufacturing.

When the first Model T was produced in 1908 at the Piquette ... Just a few months after implementation of the assembly line workers began quitting in droves. Turnover at the Highland Park plant ...

To reduce costs and increase production of his most successful automobile — the Model T — Henry Ford borrowed a tactic from the meatpacking industry and implemented the assembly line in his ...