1. For Ford, contrasts, and some thought-provoking comparisons, see my “Ford Welfare Capitalism.”
2. The first references to widespread rising wages in this sector in Detroit that I have found are contemporaneous with the arrival of orders connected with World War I. This seems unrelated.
3. So much was this true that when, slightly later in the 1920s, the Manchester managing director sought permission from Dearborn to cut wages, he seems to have felt he ought to begin his arguments with a ritual obeisance. The key passage begins “High wages are a sound investment on our part, but …” Letter from Perry to Edsel Ford of 7 August 1928 in Ford Archives Select File.
4. Carbon copy of letterfrom Sorensen to H. S. Jenkins dated 9 September 1926 in Ford Archives Accession 38, box 52.