of Ford’s apocryphal remark, “any color as long as it’s black”.[13] In 1914, an assembly line worker could buy a Model T with four months’ pay.[13]
Portrait of Henry Ford (ca. 1919)
Ford’s complex safety procedures—especially assigning each worker to a specific location instead of allowing them to roam about—dramatically reduced the rate of injury. The combination of high wages and high efficiency is called “Fordism,” and was copied by most major industries.
The efficiency