There Is No Man Living Who

This appears in My Life and Work (1922), Ford's collaborative autobiography written with Samuel Crowther, and reflects the belief in human potential that underpinned his approach to factory labour. Ford argued that most workers were capable of far more than they were given the chance to show, and that intelligent organisation of work — including the moving assembly line he introduced at Highland Park in 1913 — could release that latent capacity. He used this conviction to justify both the division of labour and, in 1914, his controversial decision to pay workers $5 a day, double the prevailing wage.