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How was Ford socialist, in this example or elsewhere?

• ggm 3y ago
  He paid living wage, provided affordable safe housing and had (for the time) racially diverse hiring (as long as you weren't Jewish I guess). He certainly wasn't in favour of organised labour, collective ownership of the means of production, or anything remotely approaching democratic socialism. My language was to outcome not belief. "A fair day's pay for a fair day's work" was a banner slogan he got behind to defeat his competitors. Of course with his obsessional belief in time and motion study (Taylorism) what he thought was fair, was completely inhumane. He refused to recognise unions & collective bargaining for decades. He was a complete scumbag, personally as far as I'm concerned. But paying high, employing black workers and immigrants, and fixing housing isn't bad.