How America Gave Away Its Industrial Superpower w/ Stefan Link

Podcast: Decouple · Dr. Chris Keefer

Opublikowano: 2026-10-23

By 1927, the United States had more than 22 million motor vehicles on its roads, compared with just 18,000 in the Soviet Union. This staggering disparity reflected one of the greatest productivity revolutions in human history: the mass production of machines capable of multiplying human labour hundreds or even thousands of times over. I'm joined by Dartmouth historian Stefan Link, author of Forging Global Fordism, to explore how Henry Ford and his engineers transformed automobile manufacturing from a skilled craft into an industrial system capable of producing millions of affordable vehicles. We examine the technological foundations of the assembly line, the transformation...