He owned a newspaper that spewed religious hatred against Jews and once had words of praise for the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889–1945). Once praised for raising his workers' wages well above what other companies paid, he was later harshly criticized for employing company spies and armed police to prevent workers from joining the United Automobile Workers Union (UAW).
It became a global model for industrialization and the economic success of the United States.ĭespite his business success, Ford raised much controversy.
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The moving assembly line, a highly efficient means of production in which a series of individual workers had one task to perform as each car moved down the line, came to be associated with Ford's company, and the entire process became known as the American system. It was Henry Ford who put ordinary American workers into cars, which had previously been luxuries for the wealthy. At one time, a brand-new Ford Model T cost just less than three hundred dollars, a price low enough that Ford's own workers could afford to buy one for their families. To many, he was a folk hero: from a modest beginning on a farm near Detroit, Michigan, where he attended a one-room schoolhouse, he built an enormous enterprise that was for a time the largest manufacturer of automobiles in the world.
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Henry Ford symbolized the fruits of the Industrial Revolution, a period marked by the widespread replacement of manual labor by machines, by standardizing parts and machinery and utilizing the moving assembly line to efficiently mass-produce cars. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars." "You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Students who feel they are being harassed or bullied should report it to the Counselor, Assistant Principal, or Principal.American engineer, automobile manufacturer
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