Title: Henry Ford : Critical Evaluations in Business and Management, (2 Volume Set) Author: John C. Wood, Michael C. Wood ISBN: 0415248272 / 9780415248273 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 808 Publisher: Routledge Year: 2003 Availability: 45-60 days
Description
Contents
This collection includes evaluations of and responses to the contributions made by Henry Ford and the ways in which his influence helped shape the understanding of management practices.
Henry Ford was an eccentric, and occasionally enlightened, thinker and remains a controversial figure today. He developed F.W. Taylor's ideas of scientific management (the subject of another four volume collection in this series), turning them into a whole 'system of production'. Ford's system was characterized by highly efficient, high volume and vertically integrated production, with high wages and low prices. His methods helped make the motor car the defining product of the twentieth century and also ensured his own iconic status.
Acknowledgements
Chronological Table of Reprinted Articles and Chapters
Introduction
An Abbreviated Annotated Bibliography
Volume I
Part I : Henry Ford: His Life and Times Chapter 1 : Henry Ford, Miracle Maker Chapter 2 : Henry Ford : Success and Failure Chapter 3 : Henry Ford : A Complex Man Chapter 4 : Citizen Ford Chapter 5 : Henry Ford (1863-1947) : :Loving The Line Chapter 6 : Ford on The Line : Business Leader Reputation and The Multiple-Audience Problem
Part II : Henary Ford : His Philosophy Chapter 7 : Henry Ford, The Wayside Inn, and the Problem of "History is Bunk" Chapter 8 : A Brief History of The Ford Library Chapter 9 : Ford and The Fiihrer : New Documents Reveal The Close Ties Between Dearborn and The Nazis Chapter 10 : In Fact . . . (Henry Ford's Antisemiticism)
Part III : The Ford Motor Company Chapter 11 : Ford's Story of His Railway : Unique Methods On The Once Derelict Line Described Form The Rebuilder's Viewpoint Chapter 12 : The So-Called Profit Sharing System in The Ford Plant Chapter 13 : Ford Profit Sharing, 1914-1920 : I. The Growth of The Plan Chapter 14 : Research is Back of All Ford Manufacturing Chapter 15 : The Little Man in Henry Ford's Basement Chapter 16 : The Ford Motor Company and The N.R.A. Chapter 17 : Americanization at The Factory Gate Chapter 18 : Did Henry Ford Pay Efficiency Wages? Chapter 19 : Managing for Ford Chapter 20 : Origin of The Pink Slip Chapter 21 : Henry Ford's Just-In -Time System Chapter 22 : Determining Responsibility for Development of The Moving Assembly Line Chapter 23 : The Power and Collapse of Paternalism :The Ford Motor Company and Black Workers, 1937-1941 Chapter 24 : Henry Ford's Sailors
Volume II
Acknowledgements
Part IV : Ford Methods : Use in Other Countries Chapter 25 : The Political Economy of Industrial Location : The Ford Motor Company at Cork 1912-26 Chapter 26 : From "Fordism" to "Toyotism"? The Social Organization of The Labor Process in The Japanese Automobile Industry Chapter 27 : Ford in Russia : In Pursuit of The Chimeral Market Chapter 28 : Nippon Ford Chapter 29 : The Reichskuratorium Fur Wirtschaftlichkeit : Fordism And Organized Capitalism in Germany , 1918-1945
Part V : Mass Production Chapter 30 : The Social Basis of The American System of Manufacturing Chapter 31 : The End of Mass Production? Chapter 32 : Ford Versus 'Fordism' : The Beginning of Mass Production?
Part VI : Fordism Chapter 33 : Americanism and Fordism Chapter 34 : Between Fordism And Flexibility : The Automobole Industry and Its Workers - Past , Present and Future Chapter 35 : The Crisis of Fordism or The Crisis of Social - Democracy? Chapter 36 : The Post -Fordist Workplace : Issues of Time and Place Chapter 37 : Organization and The Body : Post - Fordist Dimensions Chapter 38 : Popeism and Fordism : Examining The Roots of Mass Production Chapter 39 : Antipodean Fordism : Postwar Americanisation Down Under
Part VII : Henry Ford : Beans and Rubber Chapter 40 : Mr . Ford in The Jungle Chapter 41 : Synthetic Product and The Use of Soy Beans Chapter 42 : Henry Ford's Science and Technology For Rural America Chapter 43 : Industialist in The Wilderness : Henry Ford's Amazon Venture