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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
by Greg Grandin
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Author: Greg Grandin
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Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Fords Forgotten Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Fords Forgotten Jungle City Greg Grandin on FREE shipping on qualifying offers The stunning never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate smalltown America in the heart of the Amazon In 1927 Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Fords Forgotten Greg Grandin’s ‘Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City’ is an academic look at the sociological history of Henry Ford’s industrial empire particularly during its waning decades 19281948 with particular emphasis on its failed efforts to develop a commercially viable rubber plantation American village in the Brazilian Amazon Fordlandia Henry Fords Forgotten Jungle City Failure The rise and fall of Henry Ford’s forgotten jungle city Founded by Henry Ford in the late 1920s Fordlandia was the auto magnate’s illconceived attempt to establish a sprawling rubber plantation in the Brazilian Amazon Ford’s intention was to generate a stable affordable supply of rubber for his American factories “Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten “Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City” One worker called it resisting being turned into 365day machines And then of course the environmental aspect of it Ford basically — by planting rubber trees so close together in the Amazon Ford basically created a large incubator Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Fords Forgotten Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Fords Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin At Greenfields he built a perfect model museum town of American life a place to settle his vast collection of historical objects everything from Edisons last exhalation trapped in a glass flask to Fords own childhood home Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Fords Forgotten Henry Ford never did things by halves When he built a factory it was a temple of industry such as the mammoth plant at River Rouge When he wanted a stable workforce he paid five dollars a day a sum that in 1914 seemed to his fellow capitalists irresponsibly generous Book Review Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford Book Review During its brief heyday Fordlandia boasted red fire hydrants on neat streets running water a sawmill a water tower and weekly square dancing But the intransigence of the jungle changes in the world economy and war ensured its ignominious demise The Ford Motor Company invested 20 million in Fordlandia Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Fords Forgotten FordlandiaThe Rise and Fall of Henry Fords Forgotten Jungle City provides an in depth look at one of Americas great men It chronicles his successes and in this case failures Its not in a mans successes that help you really see the true character of a person Its in the failures the trials struggles and how you persevere Fordlândia Wikipedia Fordlândia Ford had negotiated a deal with the Brazilian government granting him a concession of 10000 km 2 3900 sq mi of land on the banks of the Rio Tapajós near the city of Santarém Brazil in exchange for a 9 share in the profits generated Fords project failed and the city was abandoned in 1934
