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The Great Ford Myth.
- Source :
- New Republic; 3/16/32, Vol. 70 Issue 902, p116-119, 4p
- Publication Year :
- 1932
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Abstract
- Presents U.S. automobile manufacturer Henry Ford as savior of U.S. at the time of financial crises. Selling of cars without profit to save the nation; Increase in the job production; Employment of younger men at lower wages; Cutting of wages by the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co.; Manufacture of few Ford parts by outside firms; Focus on statements of Ford Motor Co.; Exaggeration of Ford's employment figures; Anathema to workers of Ford's Rouge plant; Pressure of work on production workers; Statistics of daily shift production; Focus on the open section in the said plant.
- Subjects :
- AUTOMOBILE industry
INDUSTRIES
FINANCIAL crises
WAGES
EMPLOYMENT
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00286583
- Volume :
- 70
- Issue :
- 902
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- New Republic
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 15039133