Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1558496424 ISBN 13 : 9781558496422

Editeur : University of Massachusetts Press, 2008

Synopsis

Recasting the Machine Age recounts the history of Henry Ford's efforts to shift the production of Ford cars and trucks from the large-scale factories he had pioneered in the Detroit area to nineteen decentralized, small-scale plants within sixty miles of Ford headquarters in Dearborn. The visionary who had become famous in the early twentieth century for his huge and technologically advanced Highland Park and River Rouge complexes gradually changed his focus beginning in the teens and continuing until his death in 1947.

Ford may well have been motivated to spend great sums on the village industries in part to prevent the unionization of his company. But these industrial experiments represented much more than "union busting."� They were significant examples of profound social, cultural, and ideological shifts in America between the World Wars as reflected in the thought and practice of one notable industrialist.

Howard P. Segal recounts the development of the plants, their fate after Ford's death, their recent revival as part of Michigan's renewed appreciation of its industrial heritage, and their connections to contemporary efforts to decentralize high-tech working and living arrangements.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Howard P. Segal is professor of history at the University of Maine and author of Future Imperfect: The Mixed Blessings of Technology in America (University of Massachusetts Press, 1994).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Massachusetts Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1558496424
• ISBN 13: 9781558496422
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
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