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        This image captures the reknowned Ford Model T assembly line, what was to be the predecessor and template for all production assembly lines to follow.   It was not only a perfectly developed innovation of the time, it was efficient.   The efficiency of this production and manufacturing process, set the stage for all other forms manufacturing and production to follow, given the high volume of products capable of being distributed through this "line" format.

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      This is, of course, an image of the modern day version of the assembly line, one that was taken at a Chinesse facility, where, as the world has come to recognize, is the new capital of production and manufacturing.   This is due mostly to China's lack of environmental regulations, high numbers of labor force, and low wage standards (amongst other things).   I chose these images in response to the question : "why was it so important for people to be working so hard at the beginning of the century to be modern?"  One of the major concepts we focused on in class was the notion of embracing the machine or turning away from it.  Perhaps in the art world, this could be debated, but in the economic world, more specifically, the backrooms of future business empires, it was only a question of start up cost and when to begin.   The machines of the "machine" that is capitalism had already been set in motion, so it left people and their places, i.e. their cities, that were left to pursue these machines/assembly lines to be put into place within these places.   To compete for business meant growth capital, hence, people worked hard at becoming as "modern" as possible for the prosperity of their cities, through luring in big business.   Today, China has mastered the art of modernizing their facilities and their cities, but not their people, because the people have not gained the prosperity that is usually to follow big business and big industry in an area.   Maybe art will help to bring reform and revolution for the people of China. hy do you think it was so important for people by the beginning of the twentieth century to be working so hard to be modern?wwhy do you think it was so important for people by the beginning of the twentieth century to be working so hard to be modern?hy do you think it was so important for people by the beginning of the twentieth century to be working so hard to be modern?