Here, five employees share stories, ranging from the factory floor to the hiring office, that illuminate the Henry Ford years in Detroit, Michigan. Joe Wash's family emigrated from Hungary to ...

British Prime Minister David Lloyd George in his memoirs reiterated the idea that it had long been Henry Ford’s ambition to build a factory in Cork. He wrote that Ford ‘was anxious to ...

In 1914, Ford Motor Co. founder Henry Ford offered factory workers $5 a day for eight hours of work. Equivalent to $120 in 2014 dollars, it was more than double the minimum wage at the time ...

Though favorable to workers, the change also allowed Ford to run three shifts per day, making the factory operations substantially more efficient. In 1926, Henry Ford introduced the five-day ...