There are very good reasons to boo this man, but this isn’t one of them. Lol
A lot of people are very ignorant about history. This is much better than 12 hours a day 6 days a week and getting paid next to nothing. He wanted his workers to be able to afford the cars they were making
Boo him? Do you have any idea how progressive this was at the time???
That one thing was progressive.
The literal Nazi shit he got up to, on the other hand…
Ford is one of the most fascinating people in recent history, it’s a shame to boil him down to “antisemitic car man”
Reading through his wiki is like :D D: :D D: :D D:
The guy was the definition of a mad genius. An authoritarian anti-war socially progressive union-busting nazi. That description doesn’t even make sense, but that’s who he was.This also points to why private businesses are better than publicly traded businesses. Private business owners can do whatever the fuck they like, good or bad, meanwhile public businesses are legally obligated to pursue profits above all else on behalf of their shareholders.
The better option is the co-opt.
Workers owning the business and working to make it better for themselves.
Still more progressive than Switzerland to this day. They have normalized 42.5h workweek. You need to work 8.5 hours to be considered a fulltime employee.
35 hour week ftw. Although many newer people I work with are on 37.5, they only get a half hour lunch.
Exactly.
Considering the manufacturing work weeks used to be 12-15 hour days, 7 days a week, that’s a hell of an improvement.
Not the gotcha you think it is, Zoomer
This is really fucking stupid.
People needed to have time to actually buy and drive the cars they were building
tell that to the kids who made my shoes
You bought them
I used to tie an onion to my belt, that was the style in those days
Which was the style at the time..Get it right, Philistine :p
My memory is not what it used to be
I remember when this happened, like yesterday
I applaud him it’s was insanely generous at the time. Outdated for most of todays work but a 4 day type work week etc wouldn’t have even been thought possible at the time.
I don’t know what’s going on anymore
