VISUAL ACTIVITYAuto Assembly Line This photograph of an automobile assembly line in Detroit in 1923 makes clear that workers stayed in one place while work came to them. Efficiency increased, but so, too, did boredom.READING THE IMAGE: What are the specific jobs of these two assembly-line workers?CONNECTIONS: What else, besides automobiles, was mass-produced in the 1920s?

Library of Congress, 4a27966.