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Turning raw materials into things people will later buy, return, and buy again.
means The process of making goods, usually in bulk, by turning raw materials into finished products through labor and machines.
from From Latin manu factus, 'made by hand' — manus (hand) plus facere (to make). The irony is baked in: the word was coined to describe handwork, but by the time factories took over in the 18th and 19th centuries, hands were the one thing increasingly removed from the process.
- name irony
- Means handmade, now means the opposite
- assembly line
- Ford borrowed it from meatpacking plants
- global share
- China alone makes about a third of world goods
- modern shift
- More robots per factory than humans in some plants