Authors: Clarence Hooker
ISBN-13: 9780879727376, ISBN-10: 0879727373
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Date Published: January 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
This book shows how Ford's first large automotive plant—the Crystal Palace—transformed the sleepy village of Highland Park, Michigan, into an industrial boomtown that later became an urban ghetto, and the first American city whose life and well-being depended entirely upon the employment and production policies of the automotive industry.
Hooker (American thought and language, Michigan State U.) examines the transformation of a sleepy village, Highland Park, Michigan into an industrial boomtown that later became an urban ghetto. He describes how Ford's first large factory created the first American city dependent on the automobile industry, and how the company tried to control the lives of workers and residents. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Highland Park Before the Crystal Palace: The Genesis of a Midwestern Island Community | 5 |
2 | Frederick Winslow Taylor and Scientific Management | 17 |
3 | Technological Innovation and the Demographic Transformation of Highland Park | 43 |
4 | White- and Blue-Collar Workers in the Crystal Palace: Building the Model T and Forging the New Social Order | 67 |
5 | From Ethnic Squalor to White-Collar Splendor: Some Observations on the Quality of Life of the Model T Cohort, 1910-1927 | 89 |
6 | Ford's Welfare Work: Americanization and the Molding of the Ford Man | 107 |
7 | Ford-Men Living In: Boarding and Boarders in Highland Park and Vicinity, 1910-1927 | 125 |
Conclusion | 139 | |
A | Toward a Statistical Portrait of Model T Workers | 147 |
B | Origins, Definitions and Indicators: A Commentary on the Study of the Quality of Life | 151 |
Notes | 159 | |
Selected Bibliography | 183 | |
Index | 197 |