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 Rouge River complexes gradually changed his focus beginning in the late 1910s and continuing until his death in 1947 ...
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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 Rouge River complexes gradually changed his focus beginning in the late 1910s and continuing until his death in 1947. According to Howard P. Segal, Ford decided to create a series of village industries, each of which would manufacture one or two parts for the company's vehicles. would allow workers to become part-time farmers, Ford's plan did not represent a reaction against modern technology. The idea was to continue to employ the latest technology, but on a much smaller scale - and for the most part it worked. All nineteen of these village industries helped save their communities from decline, in several cases ensuring their survival through the Great Depression. The majority of workers in the village industries, moreover, appear to have preferred their working and living conditions to those in Detroit and Dearborn. 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. shifts in America between the World Wars as reflected in the thought and practice of one notable industrialist. 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.
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Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1558494812. Hardcover with dustjacket, inscribed, signed and dated by the author: "For Arnie, with deepest thanks for your assistance in so many ways over the years (see p. XII) Fondly, Howard 8/3/05." Book is in excellent condition with no remarkable flaws, the jacket has rubbing to the glossy surface on the rear panel and no other flaws, it is clean and attractive and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, "makes a significant impact on our understanding of Henry Ford's auto industry, America's machine age, and patterns of industrial decentralization, " includes photos and a bibliographical essay.
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