Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface and Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction.The Color Line and the Assembly Line 1
6. 1.Ford Goes to the World; the World Comes to Ford 23
7. 2.From the Melting Pot to the Boiling Pot: Fascism and the Factory-State at the River Rouge Plant in the 1920s 51
8. 3.Out of the Melting Pot and into the Fire: African Americans and the Uneven Ford Empire at Home 83
9. 4.Breeding Rubber, Breeding Workers: From Fordlandia to Belterra 119
10. 5.“Work in the Factory Itself”: Fordism, South Africanism, and Poor White Reform 149
11. Conclusion.From the One Best Way to Th e Way Forward to One Ford—Still Uneven, Still Unequal 183
12. Notes 195
13. Selected Bibliography 237
14. Index 251