Henry Ford

Finding shades of Elon Musk in Upton Sinclair’s 1937 novel about Henry Ford.

Ford was a raving bigot and a tyrant who wanted complete control over his workers. Ford is a perfect example of why rich capitalists should not run the world.

Each age’s premier industrialist has had appalling politics.

Making sense of anti-Semitism today requires examining Henry Ford’s outsize part in its origins.

On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs.

Dearborn, proud home of Henry Ford, has addressed the auto pioneer's anti-Semitism in the 1920s, which flourishes today on extremist websites.

The Dearborn Independent, a newspaper Ford owned, regularly supported and spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

Debunking the quotation that inspired our name.

Similarities between Musk and Ford are not simply biographical: "they are about what kind of societies their versions of political economy produce—and require."

How car-centric urbanism eclipsed the utopian transportation visions that once shaped urban imagination.

A new novel explores the labor and social relations forged in Detroit from the introduction of the Model A in 1927 through the 1943 race riot.

On March 7, workers at the Ford Rouge River plant marched for better working conditions. Almost a century later, a quiet park honors their memory.

At the very beginning of the auto industry, no less than three radically different design-for-maintenance philosophies fought it out.

The partnership between rabbis and labor that delivered the two-day weekend.

C.R. Patterson & Sons of Greenfield became the first Black-owned automobile manufacturer in 1915. More than a century later, it remains the only known one.

The reasons have to do with the complexity of the transaction, but also with the industry’s explosive growth in its early years.

A new history charts the global legacy of Fordist mass production, tracing its appeal to political formations on both the left and the right.

For a century, we’ve loved our cars. They haven’t loved us back.

For now, yesterday is where the money is.

My father was pro-Jewish propaganda when the country had an anti-semitism problem - he even met the man that inspired much of the hate. But is history repeating itself?