How to Build an Ideal Worker at Ford’s Highland Park Plant

Unfolding History: Manuscripts at the Library of Congress

07/09/2026 10:00 AM EDT

In 1914, the Ford Motor Company announced that it was doubling the wages of its workers, creating the “Five-Dollar Day.” A simple typewritten report in the James Couzens Papers documents the Company’s efforts to start building more than vehicles and begin “making men and homes” as well.

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