Ford Changed The Lives Of Many With Higher Wages And Shorter Workday
Take a look at these workers as they finished the upholstery on the Model T Ford seats back in 1915. January 5, 1914 was the date that they started to offer employees the rate of $5 per day for their eight-hour workday. This was easily twice the current salary on the job market at the time! Previously, employees were compensated $2.34 for a nine-hour shift. Although Ford had only 3,000 available jobs at its Highland Park plant, they saw 15,000 applicants! The salary, shortened workday, and profit sharing were too attractive for most job seekers. The employee turnover stayed low and helped with the expansion of the middle class. Henry Ford has always claimed that he wanted his employees to have a “life” instead of simply making a living.
Ford Changed The Lives Of Many With Higher Wages And Shorter Workday
Ford Kept The Final Breath Of Thomas Edison Inside A Test Tube
Before he entered the world of automobiles, Henry Ford was working for Thomas Edison as an employee of the Edison Illuminating Co. in Detroit. He worked as a chief engineer there and the businessman-inventor served as his friend and mentor. At the time, Ford started to become interested in gas-powered cars and thought of a horseless carriage. Below, you can see the two of them posing for a photo in 1921. After Edison’s death in 1931, his child Charles was at his bedside. According to the younger man, he followed Ford’s instructions and used a test tube to capture his final breath. Ford asked for this because he wanted a memento to remember his best friend by.
Ford Kept The Final Breath Of Thomas Edison Inside A Test Tube
