"Neighborhood Conditions of Employees, According to Nationality, as of January 12th, 1917"

Summary

This document is from the publication "Educational Statistics Home Plant, as of January 12th, 1917." It was produced by the Ford Motor Company Sociological (or Educational) Department, and it rates employees' neighborhoods, organized by nationality. The department was created to ensure that employees used their $5 per day wages wisely -- for instance, to escape cheap, ramshackle tenement houses crowded with boarders.

This document is from the publication "Educational Statistics Home Plant, as of January 12th, 1917." It was produced by the Ford Motor Company Sociological (or Educational) Department, and it rates employees' neighborhoods, organized by nationality. The department was created to ensure that employees used their $5 per day wages wisely -- for instance, to escape cheap, ramshackle tenement houses crowded with boarders.

Artifact

Document

Date Made

12 January 1917

Subject Date

12 January 1917

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

64.167.572.3.18

Credit

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

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Printing (Process)

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 11 in

Width: 8.5 in

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