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"My father worked at ford. He hated it – it was just like school or prison." Discuss the above statement focusing on the ideas of Michel Foucault.

Title: "My father worked at ford. He hated it – it was just like school or prison." Discuss the above statement focusing on the ideas of Michel Foucault.
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"My father worked at ford. He hated it – it was just like school or prison." Discuss the above statement focusing on the ideas of Michel Foucault.
When you look back on how the Ford motorcar factory was run 90 years ago in comparison to how it is run now, you can say that a lot has changed. But in terms of the management system (Taylorist approach) and the main objectives (increased labour = maximum productivity), not much has changed at all. The writer will take a deeper insight into the school/ prison theory at Ford and will relate it to Michel Foucault's ideas. …showed first 75 words of 1205 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1205 total…lost their identities. The factory worker simply became a very small piece on a very large machine. The very basic human rights such as the mobility of these workers were denied and the workers were left with no control over their movements. When working at NI, we were not called by our names but by the number of the machine the machine you were working on. The same method that are used to identify prisoners.

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