The Great Depression - Episode 1: A Job At Ford's (HISTORY DOCUMENTARY)
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The Great Depression - Episode 1: A Job At Ford's (HISTORY DOCUMENTARY) Just before the advent of the Great Depression, Henry Ford controlled the most important company in the most important industry in the booming American economy. His offer of high wages in exchange for hard work attracted workers to Detroit, but it began to come apart when Ford hired a private police force to speed up production and spy on employees. After the depression hit in 1929, these workers faced a new, grim reality as unemployment skyrocketed.
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Soup.....Soup.....They give me a bowl of soup :(
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And today we have wealth inequality in America that makes the 1920's look like good times. Forgetting that it was probably THE major cause of the Great Depression. With corporations today cutting jobs, outsourcing, and stagnant and declining wages---while the CEO gets a bonus. 1% getting 90% of the wealth. It's frighteningly similar to the years immediately before the Depression.
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What a piece of shit
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During WW2 Ford Hired midgets to get into some of the cramped areas in Bombers that needed rivets.
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Can you say "Out of Touch" or "POS Human Being"?
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good place to view the past. history-b
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good place to view the past. history-
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good place to view the past. history-
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good place to view the past. history-
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Is it Henry Fords problem that there was more people than jobs , who ever said that people that invest and create industry and employment then become personally responsible for ever more of their future security just because they employed them initially .
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Ford certainly was a special type of asshole. It's hilarious how working class Americans think their poorly regulated economic system is fantastic. I heard it best explained as a phenomenon where 'have nots' accept it because they think they are 'soon to haves'. Whilst in reality the vast majority of them are simply 'will never haves'. Much like the poor who buy lottery tickets I guess.
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This documentary, the people in it, and the era can be described in 1 word: GRIT
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If people haven't got any money shouldn't the prices on all things fall except imports?
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Ford once gave specfic instructions for the thickness and composition of the wood boxes certain parts were shipped in. Later, it was found that he was using the boxes to make the floor boards of his cars.
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Henry Ford was a racist, greedy, worthless, sorry ahole. Alot of the things that he did would be considered criminal. Ford should have never been allowed to have reopened any of his plants. I have no problem saying this because it is all true and everybody knows this to be fact.
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now this is a true "horror movie"
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These comments remind me of Bernie Sanders running for President. Free college, free drugs, free food, free trophy, free free free free....and these are the same window lickers that put obama in office....anyone remember his slagging Bush for raising the debt.....?
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+History Scholar The same wicked wealthy control our government today. Tell the truth.
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+History Scholar You need to do some honest research about how the wicked wealthy manipulated the Stock Market and caused the Great Depression in order to fill their pockets with money. Do your homework and tell the public that the Federal Reserve had the money to keep the banks from closing but wanted to parcel out the failing businesses to their buddies for pennies on the dollar, which is why Joseph Kennedy had 2 million dollars in 1929 and 100 million in 1934.
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When my Grandpa started working there in 1935 he unload rail cars by hand with no loading dock, 8 hours a day, every day. The guy he worked with didn't speak english. One day that guy was gone and they sent my grandpa to welding school, all because of what the security people saw. Thank god they liked my grandpa (he was German). He retired from there in 1974 after 39 years.
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