>>1393787>He was apparently an equal opportunity employer, for disabled, etcetera. Probably unheard of back then.When he introduced the first moving automobile assembly line at the Highland Park Plant, turnover was very high because workers didn't like the monotony, among other things. To counter this, in January 1914 he famously raised wages to $5.00 a day (equivalent to about $15.25 per hour today) and reduced shifts from 9 hours to 8. The area in and around the factory became overrun by unskilled people looking for the Ford dream jobs and by the end of the decade, Highland Park and neighboring Hamtramck had population increases of over 1000%, records that still stand today.
