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• Industrialists practiced industrial capitalism, which involved continually expanding factories or investing in new businesses.
Growth of Big Business (cont.)
• In a capitalist system, individuals decide how they can make a profit and determine business practices accordingly.
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• Fast-working, precise machines enabled industrialists to mass-produce, or to produce huge quantities of identical goods.
Mass Production
• Looking to increase their profits, manufacturers invested in machines to replace more costly human labor.
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Mass Production (cont.)
• In the early 1800s Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, contributed the concept of interchangeable parts that increased factory production.
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Mass Production (cont.)
• Frederick Taylor encouraged manufacturers to divide tasks into detailed and specific segments of a step-by-step procedure.
• Using Taylor’s plan, industrialists devised a division of labor in their factories.
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• Each worker performed a specialized task on a product as it moved by on a conveyor belt, a concept called the assembly line.
Mass Production (cont.)
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• As Ford produced greater quantities of his cars, the cost of producing each car fell, allowing him to drop the price.
Mass Production (cont.)
• American automobile manufacturer Henry Ford used assembly-line methods in 1913 to mass-produce his Model T automobiles.
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Ford Assembly Line
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Organizing Business
• As production increased, industrial leaders developed various ways to manage the growing business world and to ensure a continual flow of capital for business expansion.
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• In addition to individual and family businesses, many people formed partnerships–business organizations involving two or more entrepreneurs.
Organizing Business
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• In the late 1800s, as industries grew larger, corporations became one of the best ways to manage new businesses.
Organizing Business (cont.)
• Corporations–business organizations owned by stockholders who buy shares in a company–also emerged at this time.
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Business Cycles
• As market needs grew more complex, individual businesses concentrated on producing a particular kind of product.
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• This increase in specialization made growing industries dependent on each other. When one industry did well, other related industries also flourished and vice versa.
Business Cycles
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• By the late 1800s, manufacturers began to apply more scientific findings to their businesses.
Science and Industry
• Amateur inventors relying heavily on trial and error produced most industrial advances at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.