Henry Ford Have you ever thought about what the world would be like if there wasn't cars to take us to and from work or to the many places that we need to be during a day? Without the car, society might still be using horse and buggies for transportation, but one man made an incredible invention that changed the way americans traveled around thier city and countryside. That man was Henry Ford. Ford contributed multiple things to the automobile industry back in the early 1900's. His greatest contribution by far was the Model T car.
Henry Ford, the leading businessman at the time, introduced the revolutionary moving assembly line in his factory called River Rouge located in Detroit, Michigan. When people think of the 1920’s, they think of Henry Ford and how the economy boomed because of his company and the jobs it provided. Henry Ford symbolized the new industrialized America. However, as time went on the country took a turn for the worse and eventually was in a permanent state of
Ford priced his first Model Ts at $850, undercutting the $2,000 cost of most early cars. Ford Motor Company had built over 15 million Model Ts. According to http://inventors.about.com, accessed November 03, 2012, invented an improved assembly line and installed the first conveyor belt-based assembly line in his car factory in Ford's Highland Park, Michigan plant, around 1913-14. This method reduced production costs for cars by reducing assembly time. According to http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk , accessed October 25, 2012, Ford resented getting involved in war, but after Pearl Harbor he turned over his vast production resources to his country.
In 1934 Chevy started to innovate even more introducing independent suspension on the 1935 model master series. In 1935 Chevy introduced a new type of car called the Suburban which is now the longest nameplate of a car. As the wars start Chevrolet stops making cars for the public to make military vehicles. They made vehicles like suv’s and tanks for the war effort. One of the most important things that they make is engines for airplanes and bombers.
Rob Johnson, IMF executive director said, "Telling the whole story about unionization is important and if more companies put as much effort into working with unions in a proactive way rather than spending millions on preventing unionization the results would be evident." (Fortune, 2012, p. 1). As part of the Automaker's union, Ford Motors family has grown extensively in the last several decades. The employees at Ford, as unionized workers with the UAW, successfully have developed Ford into one of the largest manufacturers in the United States. Fords benefits from unionization because the union contracts can be negotiated and any work issues can be resolved, such as workplace safety, wages, and benefits.
Ford created the automobile industry, which employed thousands of workers and inspired new industries as well (Heritage, 2010).The new industries included but were not limited to: gas stations, mechanics, fast food restaurants drive-ins (pig stands) and motels (A&E, 2006). Cars basically changed the way people lived, how they spend their leisure time and where they worked at (Roak et al., 2011). With cars people could travel further to work, vacation or to other cities. Ford not only inspired new automobiles and jobs but he also attracted competition. Walter Percy Chrysler was one of the last independent car manufacturers to enter the automobile industry; he established the Chrysler Corporation in 1924 (Peterson, 2013).By the end of the 1920s decade there were three major leading automobile industries: Ford, General Motors, and
Speer gained a reputation from this commission as not only a creative architect but also an efficient organiser. In July 1933, Speer was given the job as a decorator for the Nazi party Rally at Nuremburg. This job was when his work was recognised by Hitler and it reflected his view of the Nazi party through his propaganda. The Reich Chancellery that was built in 1938-39 was one of the most significant jobs Speer had done because there was a lot of work to be done with the time limit set; one year. However, Speer finished it within a year again proving his organisational and efficiency skills which led to his appointment as Reich Minister for Armaments in 1942.
The emergence of mammoth business enterprises from 1895 to 1915 led to inevitable changes in managerial attitudes, business organization, and worker roles. * The Innovative Model T In 1913, Henry Ford established a moving assembly line to mass produce his standard automobile, the Model T. By dramatically reducing the time and costs of production, Ford managed to lower prices and expand sales and profits. The passage of the Federal Roads Act in 1916 established a national highway system. * The Burgeoning Trusts Standard Oil began a national trend among American big businesses toward oligopoly by swallowing up smaller competitors. By 1909, nearly one-third of the nation's manufactured goods were produced by only one percent of the industrial companies.
The Bill was created to prevent a repeat of the Bonus March of 1932 and a relapse into the Great Depression after World War II ended. The American Legion (a veterans group) was essentially responsible for many of the Bill’s provisions. The Legion managed to have the bill apply to all who served in the armed services, including African Americans and women. The fact that the Bill paid for a G. I.’s entire education encouraged many universities across the country to expand enrollment. For example, the University of Michigan had fewer than 10,000 students prior to the war, but in 1948 its enrollment was well over 30,000.
In the latter years of production, the Model T was available for as little as $260.00. Inflation adjusted for today, the price of a Model T was approximately $3,400.00. This allowed much of the population of the United States to buy a brand new car that they could depend on for thousands of miles. In addition to making the Model T affordable to the majority of Americans, Ford also increased the means of his workers to buy the car that they built. Henry Ford instituted a forty-hour workweek, with the minimum salary being five dollars per day.