The Color Line and the Assembly Line : Managing Race in the Ford Empire /

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 i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Esch, Elizabeth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]
Colección:American Crossroads ; 50
Temas:
Automobile industry and trade > Employees > Social conditions > 20th century.
Automobile industry workers > Social conditions > 20th century.
Racism in the workplace > Brazil > History > 20th century.
Racism in the workplace > Brazil > 20th century.
Racism in the workplace > Michigan > History > 20th century.
Racism in the workplace > Michigan > 20th century.
Racism in the workplace > South Africa > Port Elizabeth > History > 20th century.
Racism in the workplace > South Africa > Port Elizabeth > 20th century.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
20th century labor issues.
20th century race relations.
assembly line conditions.
auto industry.
black workers.
blue collar racism.
critical race studies.
factory integration.
factory workers.
factory working conditions.
ford.
global auto industry.
history of ford motor company.
industrial working conditions.
labor studies.
michigan history.
race in the car industry.
river rouge.
workers rights.
working class conditions 20th century.
workplace discrimination.
workplace racism.
workplace relations.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction.The Color Line and the Assembly Line
  • 1.Ford Goes to the World; the World Comes to Ford
  • 2.From the Melting Pot to the Boiling Pot: Fascism and the Factory-State at the River Rouge Plant in the 1920s
  • 3.Out of the Melting Pot and into the Fire: African Americans and the Uneven Ford Empire at Home
  • 4.Breeding Rubber, Breeding Workers: From Fordlandia to Belterra
  • 5."Work in the Factory Itself": Fordism, South Africanism, and Poor White Reform
  • Conclusion.From the One Best Way to Th e Way Forward to One Ford-Still Uneven, Still Unequal
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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