Pictures of assembly line workers transferred from newsprint to my hands when I sifted through easily more than a dozen newspapers a day for articles about automakers ten years ago.
While the rate per hour that Ford paid his assembly line workers was high enough to steal them away from competitors, the rate he paid per car was actually a lot less.
Dirk Bowman watches with pride as we walk along an assembly line, while workers tweak and twiddle with lines of cylindrical water heaters at this General Electric plant in Louisville, Kentucky.
The seats--enough for about 20 vehicles--are loaded, in sequence of vehicles to be made, onto conveyor belts, where they travel high in the plant's rafters down to the spot on the assembly line where Nissan workers are ready to install them.
The rest comes in big pieces ready-made by suppliers and trucked to the assembly line, where Mercedes workers bolt them on.
He also hopes that some of the workers who were made redundant could be taken back on to be part of the skilled workers assembly line.
Ivan and his peers will be America's next generation of entrepreneurs and farm workers, engineers and assembly-line employees, inventors, nurses, teachers -- and doctors.
And most importantly, American workers are back at the assembly line manufacturing the high-quality, fuel-efficient, American-made cars of tomorrow, capable of going toe to toe with any other manufacturer in the world.
Henry Ford's automated car-assembly line spawned a galaxy of parts factories filled with workers.
The highly automated factory, to pick only one example, can out-compete any assembly line in the world that runs the old-fashioned way, even if its workers are plugging in widgets and tightening bolts for 30 cents an hour.
No longer do workers have to stop and pick through bins and racks of parts next to the assembly line, a process that at times has seemed like sorting the screws in an Ikea chair.
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