FYS quotations
Regulated shift work made “the workmen
absolutely docile. New regulations, important or trivial, are made almost
daily; workmen are studied individually and changed from place to place with
no cause assigned, as the bosses see fit, and not one word of protest is
ever spoken, because every man knows the door to the street stands open for
any man who objects in any way, shape, or manner to instant and unquestioning
obedience to any directions whatsoever.”
– H.L. Arnold & L.F. Faurote,
Ford Methods and the Ford Shops (1915);
quoted in Kimmel, Manhood in America, 83.
“He was for
sale, in the open market. So were many of his friends. All the world knew
it, and he knew too that they were cheap; to be bought at the price of a
mechanic.... The young man was required to impose himself, by the usual business
methods, as a necessity on his elders, in order to compel them to buy him
as an investment.”
– Henry Adams, The Education of Henry
Adams (1931);
quoted in Kimmel, Manhood in America, 84.