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What was the major element in stimulating effective demand for Ford's products after the postwar boom?
What was the major element in stimulating effective demand for Ford's products after the postwar boom?
- The self-help concept
- Suburbanization and deconcentration of population and industry (correct)
- Wright's modernist conception
- State decisions
Why was it hard for capitalists or workers to refuse rationalizations during the war effort?
Why was it hard for capitalists or workers to refuse rationalizations during the war effort?
- Rationalizations improved efficiency during war efforts (correct)
- Rationalizations were implemented against worker resistance
- Rationalizations led to decentralized control
- Rationalizations resulted in reduced production
What were some of the factors that influenced the establishment of the Fordist system?
What were some of the factors that influenced the establishment of the Fordist system?
- Individual, corporate, institutional, and state decisions (correct)
- Wright's modernist conception
- Worker resistance to assembly-line production
- Self-help initiatives
What characterized the war-time mobilization efforts regarding labor processes?
What characterized the war-time mobilization efforts regarding labor processes?
What were some of the crisis tendencies of capitalism that influenced decision-making before and during the Great Depression?
What were some of the crisis tendencies of capitalism that influenced decision-making before and during the Great Depression?
Why did many decisions contributing to the Fordist system happen as knee-jerk responses?
Why did many decisions contributing to the Fordist system happen as knee-jerk responses?
What was a major element that contributed to stimulating effective demand for Ford's products in the long postwar boom after 1945?
What was a major element that contributed to stimulating effective demand for Ford's products in the long postwar boom after 1945?
Why did the Fordist system depend on myriad individual, corporate, institutional, and state decisions?
Why did the Fordist system depend on myriad individual, corporate, institutional, and state decisions?
What characterized the war-time mobilization efforts with respect to labor processes?
What characterized the war-time mobilization efforts with respect to labor processes?
Why was it challenging for capitalists or workers to resist rationalizations during the war effort?
Why was it challenging for capitalists or workers to resist rationalizations during the war effort?
What was a significant aspect of the Fordist system's establishment process?
What was a significant aspect of the Fordist system's establishment process?
Why did many decisions contributing to the Fordist system occur as knee-jerk responses?
Why did many decisions contributing to the Fordist system occur as knee-jerk responses?
