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Moving Forward

Henry Ford with Samuel Crowther

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Summary

Henry Ford, working with Samuel Crowther, discusses industrial production, wages, work and company management. The contents include management and size, flexible mass production, precision manufacturing and applying Ford methods overseas. His arguments connect factory organization with prices, employment and consumption.

  • SourceMoving Forward — publisher or primary text · Original 1930 Doubleday record and contents, especially Management and Size, Changing Over an Industry, Flexible Mass Production p.170, Taking the Methods Overseas p.242.

Why read it Our view

For a founder running production, the chapters on management and size, changing an industry and flexible mass production give concrete manufacturing and organizational cases.

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  • Henry FordCo-authored with Samuel Crowther
    Ford’s account of manufacturing, management and the organization of work; original 1930 work. No modern reprint edition is claimed.
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