TERMINOLOGY — canonical slugs (Henry Ford)
Canonical slug table for this KB. Concept notes in concepts/ are named by these
slugs (English, hyphenated), following the My Life and Work vocabulary. The «do
not flatten to» column guards against collapsing Ford's terms into the modern
business-school or motivational-poster descendants that his book helped spawn.
| EN term (My Life and Work) | canonical slug | RU working form | do not flatten to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business is a service / service before profit | service-before-profit |
служение прежде прибыли | «клиентоориентированность» (маркетинг) |
| Waste and greed block service | waste-and-greed |
борьба с расточительством | «оптимизация издержек» (только) |
| High wages as sound business | high-wages-sound-business |
высокие зарплаты — это выгодно | «социальный пакет», «щедрость» |
| Standardization / constant price-cutting | standardization-method |
стандартизация как метод | «стандарт качества», «шаблон» |
| The assembly line / principles of assembly | assembly-line |
конвейер, принципы сборки | «поточное производство» (только техника) |
| Work and self-reliance | work-and-self-reliance |
труд и опора на себя | «трудоголизм», «мотивация» |
| Money-making is not business | money-making-not-business |
делать деньги — не бизнес | «не гонись за прибылью» (общее) |
| Productive investment vs. hoarding | productive-investment |
вложение в дело против накопления | «инвестиции» (финансовые) |
| Machinery as liberator | machinery-as-liberator |
машина как освободитель | «автоматизация» (только) |
| Prices down, volume up | prices-down-volume-up |
цены вниз, объём вверх | «демпинг», «скидки» |
| The folly of speculation and finance | speculation-and-finance |
тщета спекуляции и финансов | «против банков» (лозунг) |
| Learning by doing | learning-by-doing |
учиться делая | «практика важнее теории» (штамп) |
Note: v1 ships 12 concept slugs (the task named ~12 industrialist themes). MOC
groups them under service, method, and money.
Notes on flattening
- service-before-profit is not a marketing slogan. For Ford it is a claim
about causation: «profit … cannot be the basis — it must be the result of
service». Reverse the order and, in Ford's view, the business dies. - machinery-as-liberator is not techno-utopia. Ford's claim is narrow and
material: power and the machine set men «free to live» by lifting drudgery
(«What a waste it is for a human being to spend hours … behind a slowly moving
team of horses»), not that machines are good in themselves. - money-making-not-business cuts against the reading of Ford as a
money-worshipper: «Money chasing is not business»; «the end of money is not
ease but the opportunity to perform more service». - prices-down-volume-up is a policy, not a discount tactic: cut price
because of manufacturing economies, transfer them to the customer at once,
and let volume carry the aggregate profit. - assembly-line / standardization-method are means to the service end,
not ends: standardization «may seem bad business unless it carries with it the
plan of constantly reducing the price».
Voice tag for every unit: voice: ford (see sources/SOURCE_MANIFEST.md).
Period: Ford is early-20th-century American industry; My Life and Work is 1922.