How Fordism and Fascism Gave Birth to Modern Car Culture
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In 1934, writing from his prison cell, Antonio Gramsci reflected on the sweeping transformations reshaping industrial production in the United States. The rise of the automobile and the wider Fordist factory, he argued, signaled a new economic and moral order, one that imposed discipline upon the worker, imbued the wage with ethical significance and blurred the line between production and private life. Of the industrial innovations underpinning this order, the assembly line and vertical integrat
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