"What was worked out at Ford was the practice of moving the work from one worker to another until it became a complete unit, then arranging the flow of these units at the right time and the right place to a moving final assembly line from which came a finished product. Regardless of earlier uses of some of these principles, the direct line of succession of mass production and its intensification into automation stems directly from what we worked out at Ford Motor Company between 1908 and 1913…”

Source: Sorensen, Charles, E., My Forty Years with Ford (1956)

Question: How did U.S. society respond to the development described above?
A. People stopped purchasing as many automobiles.
B. Businesses adopted these faster production methods and grew exponentially.
C. The American economy shrank due to a glut of consumer goods.
D. American laborers enjoyed a more relaxed pace of work.

Image Source: Records of the Bureau of Public Roads. National Archives