Fordism is «the eponymous manufacturing system designed to spew out standardized, low-cost goods and afford its workers decent enough wages to buy them.»It has also been described as «a model of economic expansion and technological progress based on mass production: the manufacture of standardized products in huge volumes using special purpose machinery and unskilled labor.» Although Fordism was a method used to improve productivity in the automotive industry, the principle could be applied to any kind of manufacturing process.

http://rixosmagazine.com/en/ford_t/

Fordism and Neo-Fordism in the context of international political economy