Automation
When Henry Ford was starting out on his remarkable career in Detroit, a bustling town which gave full vent to the creative energies of some amazing innovators, the economy of was showing enormous cracks. But at the time, even the most prescient of fortune-tellers would have had trouble forecasting what was about to happen. Carriage and buggy-whip makers were still turning handsome profits in a growing market, and the few cars on the dusty, unpaved roads were little more than fanciful toys for the adventurous rich. Some of the communications technologies pioneered toward the end of the nineteenth century must have seemed just as esoteric to the leading financiers and industrialists of the day, who were doing fine bankrolling the traditional industries they knew so well. Yet, within a few short years, Ford and others would shape consumer products out of the new technologies that would set in motion an awesome economic transformation. Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile. Nor did he invent mass production or the assembly line. Ford is famous because he took these existing concepts and incorporated them into a n efficient, large-scale system of manufacturing inexpensive, reliable cars. "I'm going to democratize the automobile."
controversial behavior epitomized the success of the company, it did The Detroit Journal announced, The surprise of the labor leaders and policy of hiring criminals not only surprised the River Rouge workers, leaps and bounds." How amazing that his prophecy has came true! immediately in the Ford plants, along with a profit sharing plan for
Some common words found in the essay are:
Henry Ford, I'm Chase, Henry Ford's, Motor Company, Secondly Ford, River Rouge, John Lee, henry ford, Aaron Sapiro, English Company, Cathedral Hundreds, ford motor company, motor company, ford motor, henry ford's, success company, financial success, assembly line, river rouge, dollar/day plan, success ford, epitomized success company, success ford motor, financial success ford, fords henry ford,
Approximate Word count = 2435
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
|
