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Originally Posted by Anabana
So, going back a bit (I didn't read every post and hope I'm not repeating), that damned Henry Ford put the horse and carriages out of business! Did he retrain any of them to be auto mechanics? I hardly think so...
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Actually, he did.
The
Henry Ford Trade School ran from 1916-1952.
It taught all sorts of manufacturing and repair skills, along with more conventional schoolwork. There's a few books on it.
https://www.detroitnews.com/picture-...boys/96841824/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fZoTS_Xetxk
Ford ran a very patternalistic organization that strived to take good care of its people, paying higher than normal wages and implementing very liberal policies for the times.
But as the saying goes, you either die young or live long enough to become the villain and Ford lived long; long enough to see his paternalism fall out of fashion and he ended up a foe of labor unions.
Here's a quickie bio, both good and bad.