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Author Segal, Howard P.

Title Recasting the machine age : Henry Ford's village industries / Howard P. Segal.

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description xv, 244 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index.
Contents Introduction: Henry Ford, centralization, and decentralization -- Henry Ford's village industries: origins, contexts, rationales -- Decentralized technology in the village industries: scale, scope, system, vision -- Farm and factory united -- Buildings and workforce -- Administration and relationship to local communities -- Workers' experiences -- Unionization -- The decentralists and other visionaries -- American industry also preaches decentralization -- Decline of the village industries during World War II and after -- Contemporary renewal of the village industries in high-tech America -- Conclusion: Henry Ford evolves from mechanical to social engineer -- Appendix: basic facts about and present status of the nineteen village industries.
Subject Ford Motor Company -- History.
Ford Motor Company.
History.
Automobile industry and trade -- Location -- Michigan -- Case studies.
Automobile industry and trade -- Location.
Michigan.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Automobile industry and trade.
Industrial location -- Social aspects -- United States.
Industrial location -- Social aspects.
United States.
Industrial location.
Labor unions -- Michigan -- History.
Labor unions.
Technology -- Social aspects -- United States.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Ford, Henry, 1863-1947.
Ford, Henry, 1863-1947.
Industrialists -- United States -- Biography.
Industrialists.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Case studies.
Biographies.
ISBN 1558494812 cloth alkaline paper