# Fordism

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. An economic and social system based on industrial mass production, where the worker is paid relatively high wages in order to buy in large quantity the products turned out in mass production.

## Etymology
From Ford + -ism, named after American industrialist Henry Ford (1863–1947).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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