Henry Ford's autobiography and business philosophy — presenting his system of mass production and high wages as a social and economic philosophy.
Ford's philosophy of production: high wages + low prices + high volume = prosperity for everyone. The assembly line as social engineering: not just efficiency but a way of organizing society. The anti-banking sentiment: Ford's suspicion of financial capitalism as extractive. A primary source for understanding the ideology behind Fordism — which shaped 20th-century capitalism and labor relations.
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