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The second paper discusses Ford in the 1930s. The beginning has a discussion of the prevailing political climate -- from the Smoot Hawley Act that spurred a reduction in trade around the world to the counterbalancing political forces of the day. Free labor unions were becoming political tools, for example working with Fascist organizations in Italy. The discussion then shifts to the conditions of the American worker during the late 1920s and early 1930s. American workers were wealthier and better-dressed than their European counterparts. They spent much more on their wardrobes.
The same can be said of diets -- workers in Detroit had varied diets that were more plentiful than workers in Europe enjoyed. American housing was also superior, where workers lived in conditions that in Europe...
Americans visited doctors and dentists, another luxury in Europe. Ford in particular had been providing for its workers in this way, and continued to do so even after the rise of the labor union. The rise of consumer credit also helped fuel American consumption.
These standards of living would not last, and when the Depression hit Americans began to suffer declines in their standards of living, regressing. Ford put 75,000 workers on infinite holiday, and increased quotas on the workers who remained in order to boost productivity. The New Deal was created in the United States to help workers/the Depression spread to Europe, bringing about substantial changes to the way society was structured, starting with trade systems and the global financial system.
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