“Clothes Factories” and Mass Production

In 1927 engineer Mario Fossati presented the results of a study which concerned organisation of the industrial mass production of clothes. The essay deals with his research, commissioned by textile entrepreneur Giuseppe Rivetti and carried out on the premises of Donato Levi e Figli in Turin with the aim of rationalising production processes on the basis of new theories about the scientific organisation of work. Fossati, founder of the Laboratory Institute for Scientific Organisation of Production in Turin, carried out time and motion studies on sewing and work processes, together with studies of workers’ behaviour.