SY103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mein Kampf, Antisemitism, The Dearborn Independent
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Lecture 6 work & occupations ii: henry ford, fordism, social impacts, born on a farm outside detroit, michigan, trained as an engineer. The dearborn independent: ford owned the newspaper from 1919 to 1927, 2nd largest readership in america: 900,000 (1925, notorious for judeophobia. Ford, hitler & judeophobia (cid:498)it is jews who govern the stock exchange forces of the american union . Every year makes them more and more the controlling masters of the producers in a nation of one hundred and twenty millions; only a single great man, ford, to their fury, still maintains full independence(cid:499) (hitler, Grand cross of the german eagle: ford receiving award (july 30, 1938) 1. centralized planning: the planned, orderly, and continuous progression of the commodity through the shop (streamlined assembly line). Wage motive: compensate workers for deskilling & reduce turnover (/day vs. average wage of . 34 in 1914). (n. b. Taylor"s suggested wage increase from . 15 to . 85: social impacts of fordism (1910s to 1970s)
