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The Way We Work and Live
by Colleen Wray

The Way We Work
The American, Henry Ford, build his first car in 1893. It took a long time to build because it had 500 parts. By 1908, Ford built the car that would make him famous - the Model T. The Model T was an inexpensive car that almost anyone could afford. By the 1920's the sale of the car was very successful and Ford could not produce enough cars to keep up with the demand. Ford decided to use a method to car manufacturing that was being used in other industries, mass production. He wanted to mass-produce the Model T or "tin lizzie" so that it would take less time to produce and make it even more affordable. Ford set up an assembly line that ran from one end of a building to another. At one end of the line were the frames of the cars. The line moved itself like a conveyor belt. Each car moved along the belt at 15 cm a minute and each worker added only one part. By the time the car reached the end of the line, it had been <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">assembled and was ready to drive. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Each worker on the assembly line had a separate job. Some added parts while <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">others secured the parts in place. Each part was the same, or standardized, and <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">mass-produced. This made the car parts cheaper and lowered the price of the <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">car. The Model T's were built in a branch plant in Windsor, Ontario.

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<span style="background-color: #d5ecec; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">1. Explain how an assembly line works. (2 marks) <span style="background-color: #d5ecec; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">2. Explain, in your own words, two (2) ways the automobile has changed the <span style="background-color: #d5ecec; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">way we work. (2 marks)

<span style="background-color: #e2c5c5; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">The Way We Live
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The automobile has probably done more than any other machine to change our <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">way of living. The United States and Canada became a car culture; paved roads, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">gas stations, parking lots, and motels were created to reflect this new way of life. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">People working on the assembly line were physically challenged on their job In <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">order to keep up with the demand for the car, shift work was introduced People <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">began to work in shifts around the clock. Shift work changed the way families <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">lived and played. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">On Sunday's, a family with a car could visit relatives 15 to 20 km away and still <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">be home in time for supper. Young people began to drive around with their friends <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> instead of staying home with their families. Farm families could now drive to nearby <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> towns and cities for a day's shopping instead of shopping by mail-order catalogue. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Cars also because a status symbol. Cars represented freedom and glamour and gave <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">people a new sense of individualism - cars were much more <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">private that riding a tram or streetcar. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The automobile also caused the spin-off of other industries. Spin-off industries <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">sprang up across the country; gasoline, rubber, glass, and oil, just to name a few <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">provided the materials needed to build and maintain cars. The car has made a <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">significant change to the world.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Task
<span style="background-color: #d5ecec; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">3. Explain, in your own words, two (2) ways the automobile has changed the <span style="background-color: #d5ecec; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">way we live. (2 marks) <span style="background-color: #d5ecec; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">4. When the automobile was first invented, people believed it was beneficial to <span style="background-color: #d5ecec; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">society. It took some time before people realized the problems that could be <span style="background-color: #d5ecec; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">associated with the car. Explain 3 problems that the automobile has created <span style="background-color: #d5ecec; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">for society. (3 marks) <span style="background-color: #d5ecec; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">5. Paragraph <span style="background-color: #d5ecec; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Compare assembly line work in the 1920's to assembly line work today. Do <span style="background-color: #d5ecec; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">you think there are any major changes to the way assembly line work is <span style="background-color: #d5ecec; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">done? Give examples to support your viewpoint. <span style="background-color: #d5ecec; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Title 1 mark <span style="background-color: #d5ecec; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Content 3 marks <span style="background-color: #d5ecec; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Structure 2 marks <span style="background-color: #d5ecec; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Total 15