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    What Is the Criminal Justice Assembly Line? The criminal justice assembly line was a term coined by justice expert Herbert Backer referring to the system acting as a funnel or conveyor belt “down which moves an endless stream of cases, never stopping . . . most people who commit a crime escape detection, and of those who do not, relatively few are bound over for trial, convicted, and eventually sentenced to prison” (). The funnel is wide at the top, and narrow at the bottom. View the entire process

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    Some Lessons from the Assembly Line Critical Analysis Essay Brenda Brown Southern New Hampshire University In Andrew Braaksma 's essay “Some Lessons from the Assembly Line,” he tells his personal insights, lessons learned and experiences, while he works a temporary summer job in a factory located near his hometown during college summer break. Braaksma describes his deep appreciation for receiving his education as he attended college and seeing what his life may have been like working a blue collar

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    essential job throughout the world, but ever since the introduction of robots and machines into factories around the globe, these lower class jobs have been declining in numbers. But is this decline bad? This decline is especially true in the assembly line jobs in the automotive industry. This decline in manufacturing class jobs began in the 1960s when General Motors introduced Unimate and had huge success (Norman). This ignited a huge influx of robots and new technologies to automate the processes

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    affect on the economy. The introduction of the assembly line had a tremendous effect on the process of total cost minimization. Without the assembly line, we would not be where we are today. The assembly line is also called progressive production. Two very important requirements for assembly lines to work, is that the product must contain interchangeable parts, and use conveyors to move the product along during production. This led to the assembly line being perfected in the automobile manufacturing

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    1908 automobiles were expensive that only rich people could afford. Henry Ford wanted to change this and wanted everyone to have a vehicle to drive. He was able to accomplish this by the assembly line, in which it created more cars in less time. The first car Henry Ford made was the Model T created on the assembly line. Ford’s innovation in manufacturing created less expensive cars and higher wage jobs. Henry Ford was also was a big help to the World War II as well because he built vehicles in that time

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    the automobile but his introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry, his inventions are still marveled in the modern world today. Henry Ford installed the World’s first moving assembly line in December 1913. Ford and the assembly line improved work conditions, revolutionized production and revolutionized American society. Ford’ effect on manufacturing reaches worldwide. Prior to the Industrial Revolution people were largely self-reliant, but the industrial

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    Ford believed that high corporate profits could be achieved through paying worker’s higher wages. Fordism was an economic model based on both mass production and mass consumption. There were two interrelated aspects of Ford’s idea: first, the assembly line system and second, the announcement and implication of a $5 minimum wage for workers. Aspects of Fordism include craft production to mass production. This is the basis for the market

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    slaughterhouses with steam driven trolley systems. These trolleys were used to carry carcasses past 125-150 stationary workers. This system was often referred to as a disassembly line as workers would cut meat of the deceased animals as they came around on the trolley. After the eventual installation of his first ever-moving assembly line, Ford claimed that in fact “the idea came in a general way from the overhead trolley that the Chicago packers use in dressing beef” . These trolley systems even incorporated

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    and social change on the USA. Henry Ford introduced the first assembly line, forever changing factories and how they operate. The assembly line allowed for the mass production of automobiles, cutting the time of production from 12 hours to 2 hours and 30 minutes. The assembly line was inspired by the continuous-flow production methods used by flour mills, breweries, canneries, and industrial bakeries. Ford began using the assembly line so automobiles could be produced at a faster rate, allowing the

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    is credited with the creation of the assembly line even though the assembly line has been used in china since 221 B.C (Lubow Terra Cota Soldiers). Rather Henry Ford is known for his ability to perfect preexisting devices and integrating concepts like the assembly line into his factories, he used this skill to dramatically change industry in the 20th century. Henry Ford revolutionized industry by creating a fast and reliable car, pioneering the assembly line in the automotive industry, and increasing

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