Mass Production
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18945014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dieter Bogenhold (0000-0003-2893-3534, University of Klagenfurt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosm042.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W4246122496 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Mass production was practiced in medieval times in places such as Venice, where premanufactured ships were produced along assembly lines. However, mass production is mostly concerned and identified with the rise of modern capitalism, starting after the Industrial Revolution. In a narrow understanding, mass production is an industrial technique to organize the production of large amounts of consumer goods on production lines. The entrepreneur who introduced industrial mass production was Henry Ford with his famous Ford Model T in the early twentieth century. The idea of mass production is the realization of economies of scale. Very high rates of production permit inexpensive products for large consumer markets
Archaeology · Business · Capitalism · Cartography · Commerce · Economics · Geography · Industrial production · Industrial Revolution · Microeconomics · Political science · Production model · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Mathematics
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |