Ford Sociological Department Advisor Inspecting Employee Home Conditions, Inkster, Michigan, 1915

Summary

Ford Motor Company established its Sociological Department in 1914. The department established rules and conditions that Ford employees had to meet to qualify for the company's Five Dollar Day pay rate. Department officials monitored employees both at work and at home. This photograph showed an inspector making departmental recommendations for home improvements to an employee and his wife.

Ford Motor Company established its Sociological Department in 1914. The department established rules and conditions that Ford employees had to meet to qualify for the company's Five Dollar Day pay rate. Department officials monitored employees both at work and at home. This photograph showed an inspector making departmental recommendations for home improvements to an employee and his wife.

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1915

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.1196

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8.063 in

Width: 10 in

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