Summary
Few people make a connection between Henry Ford - father of the assembly line - and efforts to promote Maine as a great place for telecommuters, entrepreneurs and retired folks.
Howard Segal does. He's a University of Maine history professor and author of a new book focused on Ford's interest in moving jobs to the countryside, "Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries."See the full content of this document
Extract
Ford's Tale has Lesson for Maine
Segal describes Ford as the most active of a group of industrialists who worked in the 1920s and 1930s to decentralize work. Ford set up 19 factor...
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