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Color Line and the Assembly Line

Managing Race in the Ford Empire

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

AvElizabeth Esch

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The Color Line and the Assembly Line tells a new story of the impact of mass production on society. Global corporations, based originally in the United States, have played a part in making gender and race everywhere. Focusing on Ford Motor Company's rise to become the largest, richest, and most influential corporation in the world, The Color Line and the Assembly Line takes on the traditional story of Fordism. Contrary to popular thought the assembly line was perfectly compatible with all manner of racial practice in the United States, Brazil, and South Africa. Each country's distinct forms of racial hierarchies in the 1920s and 1930s informed Ford's often divisive labor processes. Confirming racism as an essential component in the creation of global capitalism, Elizabeth Esch also adds an important new lesson showing how local patterns gave capitalism its distinctive features.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-05-04
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt408 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAmerican Crossroads
Antal sidor280
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520285385

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction • The Color Line and the Assembly Line1 • Ford Goes to the World; the World Comes to Ford2 • From the Melting Pot to the Boiling Pot: Fascism and the Factory-State at the River Rouge Plant in the 1920s3 • Out of the Melting Pot and into the Fire: African Americans and the Uneven Ford Empire at Home4 • Breeding Rubber, Breeding Workers: From Fordlandia to Belterra5 • “Work in the Factory Itself”: Fordism, South Africanism, and Poor White ReformConclusion • From the One Best Way to The Way Forward to One Ford—Still Uneven, Still UnequalNotesSelected BibliographyIndex