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History The Moving Assembly Line

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Speed Gems, Dec 1, 2021.

  1. Speed Gems
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    On this day in 1913 the moving ***embly line was born 108 years ago.
     
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    How would you like to be one of those guys filing spoke wheels all day long?
     
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  5. That's one of the reasons Henry went to the 8 hour/$5 day... The work on his ***embly lines was so brain-numbingly boring that it led to high absenteeism and worker turnover. The 8 hour/$5 day was his incentive for employees to stay (there were strings attached to the $5, however)
     
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