Essays about: "Henry Ford"

Found 2 essays containing the words Henry Ford.

1. 1. Humanity Dehumanized: Fordian and Freudian Models in Huxley’s "Brave New World"

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Antonio Domenico Saracino; [2011-07-04]
   Keywords : Huxley; Henry Ford; psychology; individualism; complex of Oedipus;

   Abstract : This essay deals with major topics in Huxley’s Brave New World, the concepts of production efficiency applied to every day’s life, psychology and psychoanalysis. These concepts, which came to the public’s general attention in the beginning of the 20th century, are in the novel taken to the extreme, thus becoming instrumental in the fictionalized controlled society: the figures of Henry Ford and Sigmund Freud are assimilated to one, divine person. READ MORE

3. 2. Production Organization at Husqvarna AB : A Study of Chainsaw Production at Three Factories

   University essay from IHH, Nationalekonomi

   Author : Anders Carlsson; Henrik Fredriksson; [2005]
   Keywords : Husqvarna AB; work organization; production organization; labor specialization; division of labor; Husqvarna AB; arbetsorganisation; produktionsorganisation; arbetskraftsspecialisering; arbetets uppdelning;

   Abstract : This bachelor thesis looks at the organization of the production of chainsaws in three different Husqvarna AB plants; one in Sweden, one in Brazil and one in the USA. The field of production organization carries the mark of men like Adam Smith, Frederick Taylor and Henry Ford, and it is with reference to the approaches of these men, and others, that we ask how Husqvarna AB organizes its production of chainsaws. READ MORE