Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries

Recasting the Machine Age recounts the history of Henry Ford's efforts to shift the production of Ford cars and trucks from the large—scale factories he had pioneered in the Detroit area to nineteen decentralized, small—scale plants within sixty miles of Ford headquarters in Dearborn. The visionary who had become famous in the early twentieth century for his huge and technologically advanced Highland Park and River Rouge complexes gradually changed his focus beginning in the teens and conti...