20th century labor issues
20th century race relations
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assembly line conditions
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auto industry
black workers
blue collar racism
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critical race studies
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factory integration
factory workers
factory working conditions
ford
global auto industry
history of ford motor company
industrial working conditions
labor studies
michigan history
race in the car industry
river rouge
workers rights
working class conditions 20th century
workplace discrimination
workplace racism
workplace relations
Product details
- ISBN 9780520285385
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 May 2018
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Color Line and the Assembly Line tells a new story of the impact of mass production on society. Global corporations, based originally in the United States, have played a part in making gender and race everywhere. Focusing on Ford Motor Company's rise to become the largest, richest, and most influential corporation in the world, The Color Line and the Assembly Line takes on the traditional story of Fordism. Contrary to popular thought the assembly line was perfectly compatible with all manner of racial practice in the United States, Brazil, and South Africa. Each country's distinct forms of racial hierarchies in the 1920s and 1930s informed Ford's often divisive labor processes. Confirming racism as an essential component in the creation of global capitalism, Elizabeth Esch also adds an important new lesson showing how local patterns gave capitalism its distinctive features.
Elizabeth Esch is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the coauthor, with David Roediger, of The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in US History.
