A Savage Factory: An Eyewitness Account of the Auto Industry's Self-Destruction
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.80 (570 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1438952937 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Robert J. His first job was at Procter and Gamble, managing the Duncan Hines Cake Mix operation in Cincinnati. He paid his own way through Penn State and receivied a full academic scholarship to earn an MBA at the University of Southern California. When he left P&G to take a supervisor's job at Ford, he was shocked at the incompetent management, the never ending war between management and labor, and the lack of real quality stand
It gives real life examples of the battlefield like conditions in the auto plants that caused alcoholism, drug addition, sexual harassment, and family breakdown, while producing transmissions that received the largest recall in automotive history and would have caused Ford Motor Company to go bankrupt had the Federal Government not intervened.. It is a true story of the inner workings of Ford's largest automatic transmission plant: the people, the machines, and the never ending war between management and labor that produced low quality cars that opened the door for foreign competitors to come to our
Powerful Book JanetP I read this book with tears in my eyes as my husband worked at Ford in Sharonville in the 1970's. He worked there from the time he was 17 until he was 60 because he wanted to save enough money so that his only son would never have to work in this type of environment but I didn't realize that until I read this book. In the 70's, I only . "Confirmation" according to SAE1080. I was only a young engineer in Ford's Automatic Transmission Engineering organization (that was part of the Livonia Michigan transmision plant) when Dewar showed up at his Sharonville Ohio plant. His book reminded me of long-forgotten memories of my Ford Motor times during his time there, about 1979 to maybe 1988. I finished almost Confirmation I was only a young engineer in Ford's Automatic Transmission Engineering organization (that was part of the Livonia Michigan transmision plant) when Dewar showed up at his Sharonville Ohio plant. His book reminded me of long-forgotten memories of my Ford Motor times during his time there, about 1979 to maybe 1988. I finished almost 30 . 0 . Eric B. Jensen said A Savage Reality. Within days of circulating some copies of "A Savage Factory," the word was out. I was bombarded by requests for the name and author of the book so coworkers could order it. The spot-on similarities to our facility had everyone buzzing. The reply I've heard most is, "Oh, so that's why they do that. The book gave me so much insight." And
His first job was at Procter and Gamble, managing the Duncan Hines Cake Mix operation in Cincinnati. Dewar wanted to give people a long, hard look behind the walls of auto plants to show people how the cars were built that lost our largest and most important manufacturing industry. He quickly concluded that at some future time the entire auto industry would simply collapse under its own weight, much like the old Soviet Union collapsed. He paid his own way through Penn State and receivied a full academic scholarship to earn an MBA at the University of Southern California. About the Author Robert J. He made copies of telltale internal memos. So he kept a daily journal. When he left P&G to take a supervisor's job at Ford, he was shocke