Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries

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233 INDEX administrative decentralization, 124– 25, 126–28 AFL. See American Federation of Labor African Americans, 45–50, 185n50, 186n58 See also illustrations following page 74 Agrarians, 90, 91, 92, 99–100 modern technology and, 97–99 Tennessee Valley Authority and, 98, 99 alternative energy technologies, 148 American Federation of Labor (AFL), 84 See also unions The American Woman’s Home (Beecher and Stowe), 93 Ames, Kenneth, 103, 156 appropriate technology, 94 Arts and Crafts movement, 104 AutoAlliance International, 138 auto industry abandonment of Detroit, 20, 21 industrial decentralization, 108 renewed centralization, 143–44 See also specific automakers automatic factory technique, 98 Automation Department, 124–25 “The Automobile as a Vacation Agent” (Dix), 171n10 Automobile Manufacturers Association , 108 automobiles industrial decentralization and, 114–15 ownership of, 168–69n13 use of, 202n26 Avery, Clarence, 38 Babson, Steve, 139–40 Bailer, Lloyd, 47, 50 Baldwin Locomotives, 140 Barclay, Hartley, 51–52 Bauman, Ed, 65 Beard, Charles A., 4–5, 196n14 Beecher, Catharine, 93 Bennett, Harry, 75, 123 Benson, George C. S., 194–95n2 Benson Ford (freighter), 135 Berg, Maxine, 132 Berne (Indiana), 97 Biggs, Lindy, 19, 36, 39, 182n6, 188n25 Big Money (Dos Passos), 15 Bird, John, 15–16, 72 Bloomberg, Michael, 209n18 Bodek, Norman, 138–39 Borsodi, Ralph, 90, 91, 92, 99–100, 196n23 modern technology and, 92–93 Boston Globe, 131 branch assembly plants, 11, 49 economic advantage of, 127–28 hydroelectric power and, 24, 37 motives for, 8–9 Brave New World (Huxley), 15, 154 234 Index Briggs (automaker), 186n58 Brooklyn plant, 55, 125, 165 Brown, Dona, 103–4 Bryan, Ford R., 180n24 Burbank, Luther, 28 Burley, Grace, 66 Burroughs, John, 3 The Businessman-about-Town (Cary), 115 A Business of My Own (Morgan), 96, 97 Business Week, 76, 109 Cabot, Philip, 109, 114 Cameron, Ralph, 69 Cameron, W. J., 7, 9, 10, 13, 116–17, 152 Canada, 177n27 Carter, Bill, 69 Carver, George Washington, 48, 189n34 Cary, Walter, 115, 116 Chambless, Edgar, 10 Chandler, Alfred, 1 Chaplin, Charlie, 15, 154–55 Chase, Stuart, 83 chemurgy movement, 31–32, 33–34 Cherry Hill plant, 36, 45, 166, 185n49 Chrysler, 20, 48, 135, 186n58 Citicorp, 132 Civilizing the Machine (Kasson), 92 Clarkston plant, 166 Clinton, Bill, 150 coalminer’s strike, national, 21, 123 Collier’s Weekly, 109 colonial revival movement, 103–4, 156 Colonial Williamsburg, 105 concentration of ownership, 111 Conference of Agriculture, Industry, and Science, 33–34 Conkin, Paul, 196n23, 198n45 corporate capitalism, 91–92 corporate decentralization. See industrial decentralization Couzens, James, 11 Coyle, David Cushman, 98–99 Craftsman (Henry Ford Trade School newspaper), 43 Crosman, A. Hurford, 179–80n18, 194n32 Crowther, Samuel, 28, 53, 138, 178n7 See also My Life and Work; Today and Tomorrow The Culture of Cities (Mumford), 100, 101 Current Opinion, 109 Cutler, Edward J., 182–83n14 Davidson, Donald, 98 Davis, Donald F., 20, 21, 153, 176n12 Dearborn Independent, 14, 89 Dearborn (Michigan), 48 Dearborn Truck Plant, 136–37 decentralist visionaries, 87–107 Agrarians, 90, 91, 92, 97–99, 99– 100 Borsodi, 90, 91, 92–93, 99–100 Morgan, 90, 91, 92, 95–97, 99– 100 Mumford, 100–101 Nearings, 90, 91, 92, 93–95, 99– 100 New Deal and, 87–89 search for a usable past, 103–7 Technocracy movement, 102–3 decentralization technology and, 1, 131–35 See also administrative decentralization ; industrial decentralization Decentralization: Sketches Toward a Rational Theory (Kochen and Deutsch), 173n22 “Decentralization of Industry” (Cameron ), 117 The Decentralization Story (pamphlet ), 126–27 Decentralize For Liberty (Hewes), 195n2 Detroit auto industry, 20, 21, 176n12 depravity within, 19–20 mass transit system, 114 Index 235 minority population, 46, 49, 187n 71 modern decline, 142–43 post-WWII decline, 128 proposed subway system, 20–21 racism, 48 Renaissance Center, 141–42 Detroit Free Press, 82 Detroit News, 21, 119 Deutsch, Karl W., 173n22 Diamond, Sigmund, 192n2 Disney, Walt, 155 Dix, William E., 171n10 Dodge, Carol, 66 Dodge (automaker), 186n58 Dorman, Robert, 104, 199n61 Dos Passos, John, 15, 174n39 Down the Asphalt Path (McShane), 169n16 Drucker, Peter F., 106, 133, 142–43, 200n70 Dundee plant, 55, 125, 164 building design, 35, 40 contemporary status, 130 financial impact on village, 57 local support for, 12–13 speculation over development of, 22 DuPont, 105, 140 East Prussia, 116 Edison, Thomas, 3, 7, 10, 21–22, 28 Edwards, Kenneth, 74, 173n23, 173n29, 175n8, 192–93n18 on building design, 175n5 on profitability of village industries , 52–53 on workforce, 84, 122 on working conditions inside...