Henry Ford And Grass Roots America

Author : Reynold M. Wik
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472061938
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Ford and Grass-roots America written by Reynold M. Wik and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Henry Ford and rural America in the 1920s

Author : Steven Watts
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307558975
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The People's Tycoon written by Steven Watts and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this engaging and superbly researched biography. The real Henry Ford was a tangle of contradictions. He set off the consumer revolution by producing a car affordable to the masses, all the while lamenting the moral toll exacted by consumerism. He believed in giving his workers a living wage, though he was entirely opposed to union labor. He had a warm and loving relationship with his wife, but sired a son with another woman. A rabid anti-Semite, he nonetheless embraced African American workers in the era of Jim Crow. Uncovering the man behind the myth, situating his achievements and their attendant controversies firmly within the context of early twentieth-century America, Watts has given us a comprehensive, illuminating, and fascinating biography of one of America’s first mass-culture celebrities.

Author : James Martin Miller
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781484173459
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Amazing Story of Henry Ford written by James Martin Miller and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-04-20 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amazing Story of Henry Ford by James Martin Miller describes Henry Ford's Birth and Early Boyhood Days-His Struggles as a Farmer, Mechanic and Engineer-The Invention and Development of the Ford Motor Car and Fordson Tractor and Includes a History of the Ford Motor Company and Its Miraculous Growth-His Defiance of Wall Street-His Famous Minimum Wage Scale for Both Men and Women and Its Results-The Peace Ship-His Senatorial Campaign-The Tribune Libel Suit -The Muscle Shoals Project-His Studies in the Jewish Question, Etc., Etc Illustrated from Original Photographs Picturing the Scenes and Incidents in the Life of Henry Ford. Also included: "The 'New Era' Philosophy" by Henry Ford and "The Ford Manual" as published by the Ford Motor Company. * * * ...a few excerpts from the book: "America needs the American Shop. It needs it not only to meet the vast economic problems which confront us in the production of an adequate quantity of goods; but also to solve the problems which have grown out of past injustices on the part of both leadership and labor. "It is pretty well conceded, even by the most slow-minded employer, that the question of production cannot be settled until the question of the producer is settled. The principal and controlling factor in all our difficulties is the human element. Indeed, all our difficulties, of whatever nature, are human difficulties; they are the signs of humanity in trouble.... "The American Way is constructive. It grows out of ideas, not out of violence. It works by education, not by disintegration. Nothing permanent is accomplished by forces pulling apart, because in this country everything that is accomplished comes by various opinions pulling together toward a desired endThere is no difference of opinion in this country as to what we desire our common life to be. All agree on the desired object. The difference comes in the methods of attaining it. But even this difference is educational. Radical and conservative interest upon each other, modify each other, until presently they come together for united achievement. That is the American Way, and the results of it stand." -Henry Ford

Author : Thomas J. Morain
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781609380274
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prairie Grass Roots written by Thomas J. Morain and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Conal Furay
Publisher : New York : New Viewpoints
ISBN 13 : 9780531055984
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grass Roots Mind in America written by Conal Furay and published by New York : New Viewpoints. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Martin Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Amazing Story of Henry Ford written by James Martin Miller and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Heather Barrow
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1609091809
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Ford’s Plan for the American Suburb written by Heather Barrow and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around Detroit, suburbanization was led by Henry Ford, who not only located a massive factory over the city's border in Dearborn, but also was the first industrialist to make the automobile a mass consumer item. So, suburbanization in the 1920s was spurred simultaneously by the migration of the automobile industry and the mobility of automobile users. A welfare capitalist, Ford was a leader on many fronts—he raised wages, increased leisure time, and transformed workers into consumers, and he was the most effective at making suburbs an intrinsic part of American life. The decade was dominated by this new political economy—also known as "Fordism"—linking mass production and consumption. The rise of Dearborn demonstrated that Fordism was connected to mass suburbanization as well. Ultimately, Dearborn proved to be a model that was repeated throughout the nation, as people of all classes relocated to suburbs, shifting away from central cities. Mass suburbanization was a national phenomenon. Yet the example of Detroit is an important baseline since the trend was more discernable there than elsewhere. Suburbanization, however, was never a simple matter of outlying communities growing in parallel with cities. Instead, resources were diverted from central cities as they were transferred to the suburbs. The example of the Detroit metropolis asks whether the mass suburbanization which originated there represented the "American dream," and if so, by whom and at what cost. This book will appeal to those interested in cities and suburbs, American studies, technology and society, political economy, working-class culture, welfare state systems, transportation, race relations, and business management.

Author : Tom McCarthy
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300110383
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Auto Mania written by Tom McCarthy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth-century American experience with the automobile has much to tell us about the relationship between consumer capitalism and the environment, Tom McCarthy contends. In Auto Mania he presents the first environmental history of the automobile that shows how consumer desire (and manufacturer decisions) created impacts across the product lifecycle--from raw material extraction to manufacturing to consumer use to disposal. From the provocative public antics of young millionaires who owned the first cars early in the twentieth century to the SUV craze of the 1990s, Auto Mania explores developments that touched the environment. Along the way McCarthy examines how Henry Ford’s fetish for waste reduction tempered the environmental impacts of Model T mass production; how Elvis Presley’s widely shared postwar desire for Cadillacs made matters worse; how the 1970s energy crisis hurt small cars; and why baby boomers ignored worries about global warming. McCarthy shows that problems were recognized early. The difficulty was addressing them, a matter less of doing scientific research and educating the public than implementing solutions through America’s market economy and democratic government. Consumer and producer interests have rarely aligned in helpful ways, and automakers and consumers have made powerful opponents of regulation. The result has been a mixed record of environmental reform with troubling prospects for the future.

Author : David Lanier Lewis
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814318928
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Public Image of Henry Ford written by David Lanier Lewis and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skillful journalism and meticulous scholarship are combined in the full-bodied portrait of that enigmatic folk hero, Henry Ford, and of the company he built from scratch. Writing with verve and objectivity, David Lewis focuses on the fame, popularity, and influence of America's most unconventional businessman and traces the history of public relations and advertising within Ford Motor Company and the automobile industry.

Author : Henry Ford
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312930004
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Henry Ford - An American Dream Cone True written by Henry Ford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FEW PEOPLE have had the transformative success as Henry Ford of Dearborn Michigan, USA. While his life-story transformed the nation and the world, the effects on its author are less understood. The purpose of this book is to explore his story as an additional study to Napoleon Hill's bestselling "Think and Grow Rich." In Hill's book, few individuals in it have more anecdotes used as examples than Ford - excepting Thomas Edison himself (who gave Ford an early boost in one of his companies.) In most days, people are challenged by their environment. They can rise to the challenge, or succumb to it. A rare few among them can see opportunity and seize it - creating a new world from a unique and unstoppable vision they hold. With Ford, we can also gain more insight into his philosophy of achievement, and how this affected Hill in his own studies. Even today, Ford's ideals have a great deal to say about how we can approach our own life. Now, it's over to you.