Henry Ford Loving The Line Analysis

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Meryl, Davids. “Henry Ford (1863-1947): Loving the Line.” The Journal of Business Strategy 20.5 (1999): 29.


Meryl Davids is a professional writer/editor with an education from the University of Pennsylvania. With an outstanding twenty plus years of experience under her belt, Davids has work featured in magzines and journals such as: U.S. News & World Report, Wall Street Journal, and The Journal of Business Strategy. In this article Davids brings to our attention the successfulness of Henry Ford as well as the some of the struggles he faced trough out his life. Davids lets us know right from the start that Ford was a smart man and he knew that time was money. Ford states, “Time loves to be wasted.” The solution to this was a large-scale assembly line. With the successfulness of the assembly line and the money Ford was saving he double the wages of his employees from $2.50 to $5 overnight as …show more content…

Yes Ford was a very intelligent man. He implicated the assembly line a very effective system, not only towards the car industry but as well as ever mass produced product made. The assembly line was a major advantage in World War II (1939-1945). It gave us the ability to mass-produce products needed for war: Guns, Ammo, Tanks, ect. But to say Henry Ford was a hero is not 100% accurate. Henry Ford was very strict on his employees. His employees were to only buy his newspaper; employees’ personal lives and family’s were checked up, with that being said Ford was kind of creating his own socialist culture. The older people Ford would do away with to hire younger to people to set the speed of the line more than likely would probably disagree with davids and not refer to Ford as a “ Hero”.
The downfall of Ford to GM as descried by Davids is because the quality of a Ford was so exceptional and the up keep on a Ford was so easy that it Ford owners did not have a reason to buy another car leading to a decrease in sales of Model

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