A Highland man who's worked at Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant for 35 years helped found the Unite All Workers for Democracy ... He started out on the assembly line. "It was a rude awakening ...
It also disrupted the concept of work — who did it and how — when the company introduced a moving assembly line ... workers posing at the Highland Park Plant in 1912. By 1920, Ford employed ...
Ford was inspired by the meat-packing houses of Chicago and a grain mill conveyor belt he had seen. If he brought the work to the workers ... in the first moving assembly line ever used for ...