Henry Ford – Revolutionary Achievements in the Automobile Industrylrevolutionary achievements in the automobile industry. His love for automobiles started at the age of sixteen. But before that, he was just another small-town farmer. The Ford farm was located near Dearborn, Michigan. It was here Henry Ford was born, on July 20, 1863. He went to local district schools like the rest of the children from his town.
In 1880 Henry was a rookie machinists in Detroit, where he learned the basics. Then only two years later Ford became a certified machinist, but returned to the family farm. 1888 to 1899 he was a mechanical engineer, and later chief engineer, with the Edison Illuminating Company. Ford married in 1891 and he and his bride, Clara Bryant, left the farm in Michigan and moved to Detroit.
His life changed in Detroit and with the birth of his daughter Edsel, in 1893, many people believed he should get a job that was easier than trying to build cars. Most believed they were simple toys and would never replace the horse carriage.
On the morning of June 4, 1896 Henry finished his first car ever, which became known as the Quadricycle. He took it for a drive around his block as many people watched from there porch. It was only big enough for him, even though his wife was excited about taking a ride in the horseless carriage. Soon she would get the experience, when he made the seat bigger and took to car out to his parents home.
Finally having his work taken seriously, Henry formed the Ford Motor Company in 1903. Before his first year was up of owning the company the first Model appeared on the market in Detroit. The Model T.
In 1913 Ford began using the same parts and assembly-line techniques in his plant. Even though Ford did not come up with the idea or was the first to us assembly-line ideas, he was mainly responsible for their general adoption and for the following great development of American industry and the raising of the American standard of living. Around early 1914 this improvement, even though it greatly increased production, had resulted in a monthly labor earnings of 40 to 60 percent in his factory, mostly because of the unpleasant dullness of assembly-line work and repeated increases in the production quotas assigned to workers. Ford met this trouble by increasing his workers pay from what the normal manual laborer was making, $2.50, to $5. This
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was the only company to make a contribution to the American standard of living.
In 1915 Ford’s workers were brought to the company’s offices in New York as the company set some of the lowest pay schedules in the country at $8 a month, and began earning $6 to $7 per hour, up from the $6.50 an hour they had worked in 1914.
At his company, which had already made $30 million, by 1915 Ford received a yearly salary of $5.20 an hour as a manager.
During the subsequent work stoppages under the “Hear the Radio” legislation he met with some of the lowest paid workers to tell them what was wrong in working conditions he had in his industrial and agricultural areas. He received a letter from the U.S. Department of Labor:
I found myself on the streets of the D.C. area and heard stories of workers from New York, including workers who, from the work stoppages, had worked in the D.C. plant and had seen many things on the radio.
Many worked on one of the D.C. plants, an industrial mill in Midtown, one of the most industrial workplaces on this side of the city.
I heard stories of workers from New York, including workers who work in a company called J.C. Steel, where the company was making $30-60 thousand a year in royalties and royalties to the U.S. government, along with other profits
and profits to the firm, and many that worked on other large and small industrial plants in the suburbs of New York.
I have heard many stories of workers working as low-wage contractors. There was never one who worked at the plant, but it was said that in mid-July 1915 at an industrial mill the plant had its first annual inspection under the “Hear the Radio” Act and was under inspection for work stoppages.
The inspectors were able to get into the plant so that it could be inspected so that workers could hear things from workers.
The company was finally shut down in March 1915 but after this, the company stopped making money, went back to operating in the other part of the country, and finally started paying workers a salary for their work again. This arrangement was so beneficial that it soon became the rule that in some cases one of the employees under contract to a company, even though he was paid so little as a manager, should receive $9.65 an hour from the company. In 1916, the workers of two of Ford’s large factory operations began meeting at the Washington plant to negotiate with the company about the pay and overtime in their factories. The workers realized that the pay rate was higher and demanded more of what their employers were getting. The two workers ultimately agreed to pay the higher wages as part of a settlement with the Company. To get