Henry Ford announced that he would pay a then-unheard of $5 daily wage to workers at his automobile factory in Dearborn, Michigan. Although he was highly controversial, Ford was a manufacturing pioneer whose assembly line method of building cars brought the prices down within the range of more families.

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Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village
20900 Oakwood Blvd.
Dearborn, MI 48124-4088
Phone: 313-982-6100
TDD: 313-271-2455