1. The Factory System

2. Work Before Factories In the home or small shops
Specialized - workers had to be very skilled
Many owned small businesses

3. Working Class – After Factories
Repetitive actions
Unskilled
Low Wages
work quickly or risk punishment
No safety regulations
Rigid schedules

4. Working Class Whole families had to work
Children as young as 6 worked up to 15 hour shifts
Many required to live in company housing and shop using “script” at company stores

5. Mass Production Perfected by car manufacturer Henry Ford
Products were now mass-produced
Conveyor belt, one repetitive action
Parts were Standardized
Each product was exactly the same
Fewer skilled workers were needed (less $$ spent in wages)

6. Mass Production Ford invented the idea of using an
Assembly Line to speed up production.

7. Key Quote – Henry Ford
‘A customer can have any color he likes for his car so long as it's black’
How would this have helped to cut production costs?

8. Assembly Lines Henry Ford 1925
‘… each man and each machine do only one thing ... the thing is to keep everything in motion and take the work to the man not the man to the work’
Henry Ford 1925

9. Problems with Factories
Can you think of some problems that workers would have with the factory system??? What are they?