PBS Presentation: The Great Depression

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1. Mastrgamr: might you enable closed captioning so I can show this in my college classroom? I have a deaf student and it would make things much easier.
2. i enjoyed it,, ford sure knew how to support and get the most from his workers , several cried o i couldnt give no shit or id be fired,, well thats the way it works,, mcdonalds mentality people are of no use to anyone , he was instramental in bringing the us out of the depression and launching us into the age of automation . people dont give enough credit for his knowledge effort and just plain getting it done.
3. Ford hired strike breakers to come in and beat the hell out of them.
4. I am happy with the emphasis on Henry Ford. Obviously Henry Ford was not the sole contributor to the Depression but his role was significant. The 20s was the decade of the car for the middle class. His mass production system created a 20s style overproduction model, sustainable only when wages were at sync and credit was easy enough. Once he began cutting wages and producing more with less workers, other companies followed suit. His plant closures no doubt contributed immensely to a plunge in consumption and consumer confidence.
5. this is part 1 of a series from PBS in case anyone wanted to see more :D
6. Oh hell, more propaganda? Yeah yeah, we know' "Capitalists are baaaad people, Communism GOOD!"
   Sure, just look at Venezuela, another failure from the ideology of constant failure.
   Hoover and Roosevelt were both the same interventionist fools and the depression went on so long and so deep thanks to them. Its isn't the folks themselves that are evil and stupid, it is the establishment that is the real culprit.
7. For all you people wondering why so much of this is about Henry Ford, The original poster did not make it clear. This was a documentary SERIES, as many PBS documentaries are. THIS IS THE FIRST OF SIX SEGMENTS OF THIS DOCUMENTARY. THERE ARE AT MORE SECTIONS TO WATCH!!!.. This first section uses Henry Ford and his Rouge Plant, to illustrate how large industries grew, and became the major employers in many cities, and how subsidiary industries could either affect, or be affected by, those big main industries. It tries to demonstrate the near total control management had over conditions of employment and how employees lived their lives, and how the delusions of one man influenced policies FAR beyond his own company. Ford was not by far the only industrialist to exert such control over his employee's lives.
   
   It relates truthfully the history of socialist and communist involvement in early labor organizing, as well as as well as pointing out that there was really nobody else around trying to help workers fight for the right to unionize. It delineates Ford's management response to attempts to unionize, as an example of how management in many industries reacted. And they do mention Ford's attempts to assist distressed workers as the economy melted down, as inept as they were, letting those actions speak for themselves. Ford, and his company, are used as an example of the conditions in many cities and industries at the beginning of the depression. It is NOT a "hit piece" on Ford, nor is it "pro-communist". It is just an opening look at conditions in one very important industry and city. The next episode takes much wider look all over America, as the Depression deepens. The next episode is definitely worth a look.
8. For years I have been investigating the crime that became known as the Great Depression. What happened to the factories didn't they have the managers or the workers? Did the grass stop growing? Did the chickens quick laying eggs? What happened to the productive capacity of America? The only thing the country didn't have was money!!! So what happened to the money? If your a Banker, and at the close of the business day there's a million dollars in your vault and the next day the money is gone someone stole the money. Now the government and the schools are going to tell you a big story, but the bottom line is the banks stole the money and the government couldn't make them give the money back.
9. Without Ford, we would have lost WWII!
10. We were never a Democracy and Roosevelt didi not save this nation as all he did was build the Washington Corporation and add more people under the Washington Slave population created by the 14th Amendment. No, the 14th did not free the slaves as all it did was place all of the confederate states under the Crown of England within the Washington DC corporation illegally imposed upon the citizens of this country under the Act of 1871.
    
    Roosevelt just added the remainder of the states to the rolls of the population belonging to the Crown of England.
11. Is this about the depression or a henry ford biography?
12. 33:18 I think the car ran over the chicken!
13. This is a documentary of Ford, and less of the depression...
14. Actually the people living at that time were not poor at all. They just being labeled by economist and capitalist as poor. so people feel bad and keep searching for paper money. when we were born we are all naked, aren't we ?
15. Why did PBS devote the first half of this show to Ford? Ford had nothing to do with the Great Depression - It was the Federal Government's dopey mandates and must do's. Who made the D.C. the good guys? Evil bureaucrats - stupid.
16. Interesting but not an apt title. This is the story of Ford's influence and the Depression in Detroit specifically.
17. Totaly 8 Children 42:20-42:30 T_T
18. This is so sad
19. hey guys, I made a video about the Great Depression on my channel for an English project if you'd like to check it out :) I made it in a 30s film-type format as well
20. I work with elderly people who went through the Great Depression and much of the information they gave me about it is different from what I learned in this presentation. This presentation gave a lot of insight into the reality and harsh conditions many people faced during that time, It is fascinating to hear the stories from the children of the Ford Employees. I was both inspired by many of the stories and learned about a time that people today rarely reflect on. Thank You PBS for putting this presentation together.