fordism means an economic and social system based on industrial mass production, where the worker is paid relatively high wages in order to buy in large quantity the products turned out in mass production. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
Why “fordism” is a great word
FORDISM — [Noun] An economic and social system predicated on the symbiosis of industrial mass production and high-wage, mass consumption of its standardized outputs. From the surname Ford (after American industrialist Henry Ford, 1863–1947) + the suffix -ism, denoting a system or theory. Unlike Taylorism, which dissects labor into its most efficient motions, or post-Fordism, which fragments into flexible specialization for niche desires, Fordism is the grand, integrated machinery of society itself. It is the monolithic rhythm of the moving production line, the gleam of a million identical black automobiles, and the worker’s pay packet calibrated to purchase the very commodity he built—a vast, mechanistic pact that forged a new uniformity, mistaking its own ingenious circuit for a permanent state.
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- An economic and social system based on industrial mass production, where the worker is paid relatively high wages in order to buy in large quantity the products turned out in mass production.