Passato e Presente — Season 1, Episode 23: The Assembly Line
Documentary, War & Politics • 40 min • 7 seasons, 663 episodes • ★ 9.5/10
Episode synopsis
Episode dedicated to the assembly line, the innovation in the industrial production by Frederick Taylor, at the base of the incredible productivity growth of nowadays "consumer society", but also of the workers' protests against the alienation and the ever-increasing use of machines.
About Passato e Presente
Program about historical dissemination, presented by Paolo Mieli. Each episode sees a historian interacting with the presenter and three young university students.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1The Defeat of the Dardanelles
- E2Nicolaj II, the Last Tsar
- E3The Trains of the Sun: Italy's Internal Migration in the 1950s
- E4Duce and America
- E5Charlemagne
- E6Caporetto: Before the Battle
- E7Battle Name: Lenin
- E8Italian Prisoners of the Allies
- E9Discord's Final: 1976 Davis Cup in Chile
- E10Caporetto: the Battle
- E11Tucci, Duce's Explorer
- E12Anne Frank, a Denied Memory