The Great Depression: A Job at Ford's

(1993)

★ 7.5 IMDb · 10 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1993

Runtime: 52 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Jon Else

Cast: Джо Мортон, Paul Boatin, Sally Booth, Stella Brown, Ford Bryan, Henry Ford, Doug Fraser, Herbert Hoover, Gore Vidal

Plot

Just before the advent of the Great Depression, Henry Ford controlled the most important company in the most important industry in the booming American economy. His offer of high wages in exchange for hard work attracted workers to Detroit, but it began to come apart when Ford hired a private police force to speed up production and spy on employees. After the depression hit in 1929, these workers faced a new, grim reality as unemployment skyrocketed.