Fordist System Implementation History Quiz
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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?

  • 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?

  • 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?

    <p>Large-scale planning and rationalizations of the labor process</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What were some of the crisis tendencies of capitalism that influenced decision-making before and during the Great Depression?

    <p>Unwitting political choices and knee-jerk responses</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why did many decisions contributing to the Fordist system happen as knee-jerk responses?

    <p>Due to crisis tendencies of capitalism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was a major element that contributed to stimulating effective demand for Ford's products in the long postwar boom after 1945?

    <p>Suburbanization and deconcentration of population and industry</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why did the Fordist system depend on myriad individual, corporate, institutional, and state decisions?

    <p>To meet the crisis tendencies of capitalism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What characterized the war-time mobilization efforts with respect to labor processes?

    <p>Centralized control over labor processes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why was it challenging for capitalists or workers to resist rationalizations during the war effort?

    <p>Since rationalizations improved efficiency during wartime</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was a significant aspect of the Fordist system's establishment process?

    <p>State-directed large-scale planning</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why did many decisions contributing to the Fordist system occur as knee-jerk responses?

    <p>As a result of immediate reactions to crisis tendencies</p> Signup and view all the answers

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