The Assembly of the Poor is an Thailand. Its aim is to help those affected by development projects and industries to become involved in the process of development, so that they benefit from those projects.
The group was established on 10 December 1995 (International Human Rights Day). The project was instigated by a group of villagers affected by the Pak Mun dam, but these have since been joined by people concerned about other projects in the country, and by factory workers suffering from industrial injuries.
The group's activities so far have included the organisation of demonstrations and discussion forums; the drafting and presentation of letters of protest to the government; and the making of legislative proposals.
External link
International Rivers Network (http://www.irn.org/index.asp?id=/programs/pakmun/assembly.html)
By this time mass production, involving an assembly line and using modern machinery, had become a means of producing goods at lower cost and greater output.
US inventor Eli Whitney pioneered the concept of industrial assembly in the 1790s, when he employed unskilled labour to assemble muskets from sets of identical precision-made parts produced by machine tools.
In 1901 Ransome Olds in the USA began mass-producing motor cars on an assembly-line principle, a method further refined by the introduction of the moving conveyor belt by Henry Ford in 1913 and the time-and-motion studies of Fredriech Winslow Taylor.
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