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LGM Podcast: Forging Global Fordism

By Erik Loomis

In podcast

On September 12, 2022

The latest guest on the LGM podcast is Stefan Link, a historian at Dartmouth, to discuss his recent book Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order. This is a book that will interest a lot of LGM readers...

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LGM Film Club, Part 72: Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-I.W.W. Rat

By Erik Loomis

On September 15, 2020

Henry Ford used World War I to have a series of right-wing anti-labor animations made. They are pretty gross. This film was trending a bit on Twitter the other day..

General

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 87

By Erik Loomis

On June 11, 2017

This is the grave of Henry Ford. Born in 1863 in Greenfield Township, Michigan, Henry Ford is one of the strangest and most conflicted characters in American history. With the.

Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-IWW Rat

By Erik Loomis

In General

On January 31, 2015

In 1918 and 1919, the Ford Motor Company produced a bunch of cartoons to support World War I and the Red Scare. This piece of radical eliminationism is from 1919. Here's a link with sound, which is better because the rat is singing The Internationale....

General

This Day in Labor History: January 5, 1914

By Erik Loomis

On January 5, 2015

On January 5, 1914, Henry Ford announced his famous $5 a day wage to his workers. Ford is often lauded for his efforts here and he was surely forward-thinking in.

General

This Day in Labor History: May 26, 1937

By Erik Loomis

On May 26, 2013

On May 26, 1937, United Auto Workers organizers, including future president Walter Reuther, walked toward the Ford Motor Company's giant River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan to hand out pro-union.

This Day in Labor History: March 7, 1932

By Erik Loomis

In General

On March 7, 2013

On March 7, 1932, several thousand unemployed workers marched toward Henry Ford's River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Upon reaching the complex, the city police and Ford's armed guards, very similar entities, opened fire on the marchers, killing five and wounding more than 60. Henry...

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