Реферат: Henry Ford Essay Research Paper Biography of

Cathedral. Hundreds waited month after month in front of the

employment building hoping to be hired. To foreign immigrants it

meant hope and a successful future. The River Rouge plant employed

over 50,000 employees. Pols, Lithuanians, Germans, almost every

western Europe country could be represented at the Ford Plant. Like a

father Henry Ford began educational programs, teaching his illiterate

employees how to read English. Company picnics, and dinners were all

part of Ford s policies that were so unusual, yet so brilliant at that

time.

Of the most controversial actions of Ford was his hiring of

criminals. In fact it was said that, thousands of former criminals

were taken on the Fords payroll over the course of the years, all at

Mr. Fords Requests. Not only was this a highly questionnable

decision, but it startled everyone. It was odd, especially when there

was such a demand to work at Fords. Why would Henry Ford want to take

the risk of hiring potentially dangerous felons? Nobody would be able

to answer this question better than Ford s right hand man Harry

Bennett. Bennett has said that Henry Ford was very sympathetic

towards criminals, even that he would try and, in a sense,

rehabilitate them. Not only did the new workers please Henry Ford,

but they also helped the company itself. Ford s controversial new

policy of hiring criminals not only surprised the River Rouge workers,

but it swept across the nation. Many news articles were printed

concerning Ford s policies. In effect Ford was receiving free

advertising. Whether it was his intent or not, Ford s ideas,

sometimes eccentric helped market the company for the good.

In 1914 Henry Ford hired John R. Lee to update the companies

labor policies. $5/day was to be split into half wages and half

profits. Ford employees would only receive profits when they met