Henry Ford
engineer · 2 mentions across 2 readings
In this course
Ford appears here primarily as the namesake of Fordism, the industrial model of standardized mass production that the readings position as a precursor to contemporary platform logic and algorithmic control systems. By invoking Fordism alongside Taylorism, the course traces how Ford's manufacturing rationalization—the assembly line, interchangeable parts, consumer standardization—established the template for how later systems (from marketing to algorithmic platforms) would systematize and control both production and desire. His legacy matters not for automotive innovation itself but as the ur-example of how standardization becomes a mechanism of profit extraction and social ordering.
Background
Henry Ford was an American industrialist and business magnate. As the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans through the system that came to be known as Fordism. In 1911, he was awarded a patent for the transmission mechanism that would be used in the Ford Model T and other automobiles.
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