What positive effects did the assembly line have?

Answer 1

used to make automobiles

there are a lot of positive ways but this is one of them.

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It helped many people have a job.

The amount of the money the workers got paid were good and many workers were happy because of this.

But, also they only got paid minimum wage.

By- AishaLuvs

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The positive effect was that many more people could afford items we now take for granted, not just cars, although it was the automobile industry that really started high-volume assembly-line operation.

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As far as pay goes, piece-work was common in factories until well into the 20C. You were paid by output rather than time. Wages were low, even relatively, but don't confuse AishaLuv's use of "minimum wage" with the modern, very recent, legal use.

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Mass-production methods were not new, but previously limited to the textile industry and to specialist trades like military equipment manufacture.

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From the late 18C on the British cotton-weaving industry expanded tremendously thanks to the invention of large-scale machine-looms, initially water-powered then steam-powered. (A central engine drove all the mill's machines through a network of shafts, pulleys and belts.)

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The great 19C engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, had a set of miniature machines built to demonstrate to the Admiralty, his designs for machines to mass-produce blocks ('pulleys') for the rigging of Royal Navy ships, still all sail-powered then. These models survive, still capable of making neat little working blocks. Even 2 or 3 centuries before then, the Swiss and German clock-making trades often used a sort of batch-production system in which one man would make only the clocks' wheels (the "gears"), another the plates, someone else would engrave all the dials, and so on.