Resumo da biografia de Henry Ford

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The secret for this massive industrialism from Ford’s company was the assembly line, a system carrying an item that is being manufactured past a series of stationary workers who each assemble a particular portion of the finished product. He made the first industrial application of the idea, and the result was that almost every industry of the world today uses assembly lines to manufacture their products. Using assembly lines, the Ford Motor Company built fifteen million Model Ts between 1908 and 1927.

Ford’s deeply help belief in his duty to work for the common good led him to benefit his workers and the people who bought his automobiles. Ford dropped prices of Model Ts every year, while the automobile kept getting better. He doubled the pay of the average worker in his company, and cut the working hours. This was not only the right thing to do, but a good economic decision. He drastically improved the morale of his workers and created a new class of industrial workers who could afford the Model T. He gave physically challenged a chance to work, and gave chance to criminals to work too.

As the Model T gained popularity, Ford gained respect from his fellow Americans. He then had a high opinion of himself, causing him to take impossible tasks. In 1915, Ford financed to sail on the “Peace” ship, his attempt to end World War I in Europe. The ship was rejected, and Ford returned to America. Also, Henry Ford believed Jewish people had a plan to rule society. He bought a newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, and used it to publish his bitter anti Jewish writings. Ford’s reputation had been sullied in the eyes of many Americans.

Ford’s final years were ones of decline. His company felt behind General Motors, his competing company, due to now listening to his business advisors. President Roosevelt refused to take part in his attempt to institute cooperation between industries, in order to ease the Great Depression of the 1930’s. By this time, more than 70% of Ford’s workers voted to join the UAW, the United Auto Workers, which sometimes worked against Henry Ford.

In 1938, Henry Ford survived a stroke. His only son, Edsel, died of cancer in 1943, another terrible blow. Ford himself died on April 7, 1947, leaving a legacy behind him that includes the concept of mass production and the moving assembly line.