Life in the Shadows of the Crystal Palace, 1910–1927
Ford Workers in the Model T Era
Clarence Hooker
University of Wisconsin Press, 1997
This book shows how Ford's first large automotive plant—the Crystal Palace—transformed the sleepy village of Highland Park, Michigan, into an industrial boomtown that later became an urban ghetto, and the first American city whose life and well-being depended entirely upon the employment and production policies of the automotive industry.
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