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Newspaper Article, "Henry Ford Gives $10,000,000 in 1914 Profits to His Employes"
Ford Motor Company. Archives1914-01-05
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
When Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly line in 1913 he loved it but his employees didn't. The work was boring and relentless, and worker turnover was high. To get workers to stay, Henry more than doubled their pay, from $2.34 per day to $5 per day. It was headline news in Detroit and around the country.
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- Title: Newspaper Article, "Henry Ford Gives $10,000,000 in 1914 Profits to His Employes"
- Creator: Ford Motor Company. Archives
- Date: 1914-01-05
- Location: United States, Michigan, Detroit
- Subject Keywords: Couzens, James, 1872-1936, Ford, Henry, 1863-1947, Ford Motor Company, Automobile industry, Profit-sharing, Five Dollar Day, Photographic prints, Photographs
- Type: Photographs
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: Digital Collections
- Object Name: Photographic print
- Object ID: P.D.652
- Image ID: THF101429
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
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