You aren’t getting the complete picture if you discuss the $5 workday without also mentioning Ford’s Sociological Department. They were basically a group of in

You aren’t getting the complete picture if you discuss the $5 workday without also mentioning Ford’s Sociological Department. They were basically a group of investigators that looked into numerous aspects of Ford’s employees personal lives. If your kid didn’t go to school, if you kitchen wasn’t clean enough, if you spent too much time at the bar, if you weren’t saving enough, you wouldn’t qualify for $5 a day. That new salary wasn’t purely a capitalist endeavor, it was a totalitarian endeavor that gave Ford the ability to control the lives of his employees.