The Color Line and the Assembly Line

Managing Race in the Ford Empire

Elizabeth Esch (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2018
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-28538-5 (ISBN)

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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 influential corporation in the world, The Color Line and the Assembly Line takes on the traditional story of Fordism. Contrary to popular thought the assembly line was perfectly compatible with all manner of racial practice in the United States, Brazil, and South Africa. Each country's distinct forms of racial hierarchies in the 1920s and 1930s informed Ford's often divisive labor processes. Confirming racism as an essential component in the creation of global capitalism, Elizabeth Esch also adds an important new lesson showing how local patterns gave capitalism its distinctive features.

Elizabeth Esch is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the coauthor, with David Roediger, of The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in US History.

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 The Way Forward to One Ford—Still Uneven, Still Unequal

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2018
Reihe/Serie	American Crossroads ; 50
Zusatzinfo	10 b-w photos
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
ISBN-10	0-520-28538-7 / 0520285387
ISBN-13	978-0-520-28538-5 / 9780520285385
Zustand	Neuware