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"Most great figures in American history reveal great contradictions, and Henry Ford is no exception. He championed his workers, offering unprecedented wages, yet crushed their attempts to organize. Virulently anti-Semitic, he never employed fewer than 3,000 Jews. An outspoken pacifist, he made...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Curcio, Vincent
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Colección:Lives and legacies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction -- 1. Henry Ford -- How It All Began -- 2. Walking into the Future -- 3. Cooking with Gas -- 4. The Ford Motor Company -- 5. The Model T and the Coming of Mass Production -- 6. The Big Issues -- Peace and War -- Consolidating Power -- 7. Modern Times -- 8. Has Something Come Between Us? -- 9. Things he was Thinking About -- 10. Everything Old is New Again -- 11. Efflorescence and Hard Endings -- Conclusion. 
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