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Bibliography of Detroit History, Politics, and Culture Late-Nineteenth Century to the Present Bibliography of Detroit History, Politics, and Culture Late-Nineteenth Century to the Present Compiled by Thomas A. Klug April 8, 2019 Ford Publications A Visit to the Ford Rouge Plant. Dearborn, MI: Ford Motor Company, 1937. Abell, Oliver J. “The Ford Plan for Employees’ Betterment.” Iron Age 93, no. 29 (January 29, 1914): 306–09. ———. “The Making of Men, Motor Cars and Profits.” Iron Age 95, no. 7 (January 7, 1915): 33–41. Alston, Christopher C., and Sylvia Alston. Henry Ford and the Negro People. Washington, D.C.: National Negro Congress, 1941. Anastakis, Dimitry. “From Independence to Integration: The Corporate Evolution of the Ford Motor Company of Canada, 1904–2004.” Business History Review 78, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 213–53. https://doi.org/10.2307/25096866. Ariouat, Jacqueline Fellague. “The Dearborn Independent: A Mirror of the 1920s.” Michigan History 80 (October 1996): 41–47. Arnold, Horace Lucien, and Fay Leone Faurote. Ford Methods and the Ford Shops. Technology and Society. New York, NY: The Engineering Magazine Company, 1915. Asher, Robert. “The 1949 Ford Speedup Strike and the Post War Social Compact, 1946-1961.” In Auto Work, edited by Robert Asher and Ronald Edsforth, 127–54. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1995. Bailer, Lloyd H. “The Negro Automobile Worker.” Journal of Political Economy 51, no. 5 (October 1943): 415–28. https://doi.org/10.1086/256087. Baime, A. J. The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. Bak, Richard. Henry and Edsel: The Creation of the Ford Empire. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2003. Baldwin, Neil. Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate. New York, NY: Public Affairs, 2001. Barclay, Hartley W. Ford Production Methods. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1936. Barnard, Harry. Independent Man: The Life of Senator James Couzens. 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