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A Job at Fords The Great Depression toke place from 1930 to 1939, it was a period where America saw grinding poverty and fabulous wealth side by side. The members of this nation were questioning if democracy could survive, and felt that a revolution may have occurred if President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was not elected. The severe depression caused the people to come together and be responsible for their own destiny to make the nation work for them, through this they found that when the Great Depression had finally ended, they had made a new America. The film, titled “A Job at Ford’s”, gave us a detailed look at the struggle placed on many workers in Detroit, who were employed by the Ford Motor Company. Henry Ford was responsible for revolutionizing the assembly line in 1914, and mass-producing his line of automobiles, the Model-T. With this innovation came many job openings and Ford Plants were employing tens of thousands in the Detroit area alone. After the ‘roaring 20’s’ America became a nation of gadgets and hungry consumers, an attitude of prosperity that caused a high demand for the Ford model’s and allowed the Detroit plant to turn out over 6,000 cars a day. With high profits Henry Ford was able to pay his workers a salary of $5 a day, it was obvious that all members of the market were benefiting.
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