A new global history of Fordism from the Great Depression to the postwar eraAs the United States rose to ascendancy in the first decades of the twentieth century, observers abroad associated American economic power most directly with its burgeoning automobile industry. In the 1930s, in a bid to emulate and challenge America, engineers from acro
"This book traces the emergence of mass production and Fordism, its accompanying ideology, first in the United States and then in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union"--
"Stefan J. Link has prepared a fast-paced and well-documented comparative account of a phenomenon he calls ‘global Fordism,’ and which he uses to analyze . . . the ‘global thirties.’"
---Harold James, American Historical Review
