Henry Ford

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and is credited with contributing to the creation of a middle class in American society. He was one of the first to apply assembly line manufacturing to the mass production of affordable automobiles. This achievement not only revolutionized industrial production in the United States and the rest of the world, but also had such tremendous influence over modern culture that many social theorists identify this phase of economic and social history as "Fordism."

References

• Lee, Albert; Henry Ford and the Jews; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1980; ISBN 0-81-282701-5
• Baldwin, Neil; Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate; PublicAffairs, 2000; ISBN 1-58-648163-0
• Ford, Henry and Crowther, Samuel; My Life and Work
• Wallace, Max The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich; ISBN 0312335318
• Bryan, Ford R. Henry's Lieutenants, 1993; ISBN 0-8143-2428-2
• {{Journal reference issue | Author=Daniel M. G. Raff and Lawrence H. Summers | Title=Did Henry Ford Pay Efficiency Wages? | Journal=Journal of Labor Economics | Year=October 1987 | Volume=5 | Issue=4 | Pages=S57-S86}}