The ten most important events in American industrial history

kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Tue Mar 14 11:57:36 PST 2000



>Something about the service economy, what?
>???

the birth of mcdonald's/ ray kroc's store/ hambruger university {fast forward to a montage of quickly moving images of someone going about their daily business that zeroes in how it's ALL like mcdonald's any more.}

playboy bunnies union organizing -- he can also look for the woman who was big on organizing waitress unions in the 60s [almost 30% of waitresses were once unionized btw} i can't recall her name but she's part of a historical/sociological look at service unions in a book called _dishing it out_ dorothy sue cobble. union folks ought to read it. i think she has some interesting idears. not uncomplicated ones or ones that aren't problematic, but interesting nonetheless.

info technologies/internet -- good to stress here the underwriting of it all by gubmint. {fast forward to BigCigar E-commerce}

ford--assembly line/automobile [there's some good food of ford and his social engineering policies/policing of workers-- this would also be about the rise of consumer cap since ford doubled pay and cut the working day so people who worked for him would buy his cars --- fast forward to footage of road rage and clogged highways

also footage on the Hawthorne studies which contributed both to fordist production techniques but later would morph into the foundation for all the new mgmt hoopla over TQM etc]

electricity/telephone --what doug's pal rifkin calls the second industrial rev.

cold war waged in terms of superhighway system/education/infrastructure

mass movement of white women into service economy [see if you can make sure he notes that this was the trend anyway....]

second wave of women's movement

kelley

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