However many employers agreed thatimplementation of the

crisis in the production of 75mm artilleryshells made it clear that workforce composed of many workers who had neverdone factory work beforemany regular male industrial workers were offto warhad to produce vast quantities of war matriel. Fordist production techniques required that manufacturingbe viewed as an integrated flow, symbolized by the assembly line. Moreover, she combined the tayloristfayolistsynthesis with specifically European notion of the mechanical efficienciesof the human body as motor to give domestic rationalization conceptionsa peculiarly ergonomic twist. Gone werethe images of James Fenimore Cooper frontierEden seen through Rousseauisteyes seeking primal innocence.

Over the past few decades, discussions of the globalvillage and global Americanization have sometimes tended to imply sortof cultural imperialism on the part of American businesses and peddlersof cultural artifacts, from CocaCola to films. For those women of the middle and upper social strata, quality and socialdistinction could simply not be mass produced. This phenomenon was apparent with the Salonsdes Arts Mnagers, or annual home shows. This implies that small shoptaylorism should have fit well in the French home meant not simply importing objects anddesigns, but reinventing the French family and the French woman.

The satisfaction of broadconsumer demand required mass production, just as the minimization of productioncosts through mass production required mass consumption. The Fordist agenda had more than an economicfunctionalistagenda, and its implications were not just political. crisis in the production of 75mm artilleryshells made it clear that workforce composed of many workers who had neverdone factory work beforemany regular male industrial workers were offto warhad to produce vast quantities of war matriel. Like the declining artisan, the traditional housewife used ruleofthumband learningbydoing procedures like the new worker, the modern housewifewould be guided by rational, explicit principles and an economy of motion.

However, many employers agreed thatimplementation of the eighthour law passed in would have to be paidfor with higher productivity. Countering theirindustrial counterparts who were enamored with taylorism that treatedthe body as black box, biodynamicists studied the work process as theconversion of raw energysugars and carbohydratesinto useful work. Nonetheless,the heavily prescripted dicta for managerial organization offered by HenriFayol, abstract as they were, offered an interesting predecessor to theParsonian structuralfunctionalism popular in American business schoolsin the the production process and hence avoid demandingthat women do heavy lifting, French efforts at Taylorism tended to losesight of the notion of product flow.

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