Henry Ford Listed in Fortune’s "20 Key Decisions"

Fortune 75 – Best and Worst Calls in Business History – FORTUNE  (PDF)

Now I think the “$5 a day” story is pretty widely known by now, but did you know that “To qualify for that $5, workers would have to remain in good moral standing (no saloons) and submit to intrusive home visits from Ford's Sociology Department.”

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I've never heard that dark detail.

On the plus side, “For the first time, a major industrialist had suggested that the contract between employer and employee consisted of more than just a wage (and the lowest possible one at that).”