From the Model T to today's "lean manufacturing": the assembly line as crucial, yet controversial, agent of social and economic transformation. The mechanized a

From the Model T to today's "lean manufacturing": the assembly line as crucial, yet controversial, agent of social and economic transformation. The mechanized a

Explores how electricity seeped into and redefined American culture, becoming fundamental to modern life.

This volume tells the story of what the 1988 closing of the Chrysler assembly plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin, meant to the people who lived in that town. Through i

The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history. The United States had to fight