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Henry Ford: Workers
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Henry Ford was a pioneer of "welfare capitalism" designed to improve the lot of his workers and especially to reduce the heavy turnover that had many departments hiring 300 men per year to fill 100 slots. Efficiency meant hiring and keeping the best workers.
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Henry Ford became an icon of a self-made man. He began life as a farmer's son and quickly became rich and famous. Although an industrialist, Ford remembered the common man. He designed the Model T for the masses, installed a mechanized assembly line to make production cheaper and faster, and instituted the $5 per day pay rate for his workers.
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Henry Ford ... created a Sociological Department within his company to keep a watch on the way the laborers conducted their day to day life. Activities such as gambling and drinking were not acceptable and this often disqualified the workers from receiving the higher pay.
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