“Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the…”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.comTagged: Fordism, HenryFord, HumanRobots, Industrialization, TheIndustrialRevolution
“You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.comTagged: Globalization, Immigration