When Henry Ford's Model T rolls onto the scene in 1908, it is inconceivable that it will ever be anything more than a plaything for the very wealthy. But mass production and, later, Ford's moving assembly line, allowed manufacturers to produce goods at affordable prices that made them accessible to a new mass market. And it changes everything— from dramatically altering the workers' relationship to their product to transforming economies and societies around the world. On the Line follows the acceleration of mass production, from the days of master craftsmen to the pressures and benefits of assembly-line work to the growing strength of "people power" as labor and management struggle to divide the fruits of increased productivity. The people remember: Henry Ford, the Model T, the moving assembly line, Detroit's River Rouge Plant, American consumer goods, UAW union organizing, Stalin's Industrialization.