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===Specialized studies=== {{refbegin|30em}} * Baime, A. J. ''The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War'' (2014). * Barrow, Heather B. ''Henry Ford's Plan for the American Suburb: Dearborn and Detroit.'' DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 2015. * Batchelor, Ray. ''Henry Ford: Mass Production, Modernism and Design'' Manchester University Press, 1994. * Bonin, Huber et al. ''Ford, 1902β2003: The European History'', 2 vol, Paris 2003. {{ISBN|2914369069}} scholarly essays in English; reviewed in Holden, Len. "Fording the Atlantic: Ford and Fordism in Europe" in ''Business History '' Volume 47, #January 1, 2005, pp. 122β27. * Brinkley, Douglas. "Prime Mover". ''American Heritage'' 2003, 54(3): 44β53. on Model T. * Bryan, Ford R. ''Henry's Lieutenants'', 1993; {{ISBN|0814324282}} * Bryan, Ford R. ''Beyond the Model T: The Other Ventures of Henry Ford'' Wayne State Press 1990. * Dempsey, Mary A. "Fordlandia," ''Michigan History'' 1994 78(4): 24β33. Ford's rubber plantation in Brazil * [[John Kenneth Galbraith|Galbraith, John Kenneth]]. "The Mystery of Henry Ford" ''The Atlantic'' (March 1958) [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1958/03/the-mystery-of-henry-ford/641305/ online] famous debunking essay. * Grandin, Greg. ''Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City''. London, Icon, 2010. {{ISBN|978-1848311473}} * {{Hounshell1984}} * Jacobson, D. S. "The Political Economy of Industrial Location: the Ford Motor Company at Cork 1912β26." ''Irish Economic and Social History'' 1977 4: 36β55. Ford and Irish politics. * Kraft, Barbara S. ''The Peace Ship: Henry Ford's Pacifist Adventure in the First World War'', Macmillan, 1978. * Levinson, William A. ''Henry Ford's Lean Vision: Enduring Principles from the First Ford Motor Plant'', 2002; {{ISBN|1563272601}} * Lewis, David L. "Ford and Kahn" ''Michigan History'' 1980 64(5): 17β28. Ford commissioned architect Albert Kahn to design factories * Lewis, David L. "Working Side by Side" ''Michigan History'' 1993 77(1): 24β30. Why Ford hired large numbers of black workers * Link, Stefan J. ''Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order'' (2020) [https://www.amazon.com/Forging-Global-Fordism-Germany-Industrial/dp/0691177546/ excerpt] * McIntyre, Stephen L. "The Failure of Fordism: Reform of the Automobile Repair Industry, 1913β1940: ''Technology and Culture'' 2000 41(2): 269β99. repair shops rejected flat rates * Meyer, Stephen. ''The Five Dollar Day: Labor Management and Social Control in the Ford Motor Company, 1908β1921'' (1981) * Nevins, Allan, and Frank Ernest Hill. '' Ford: the Times the Man the Company'' (1954); ''Ford: Expansion and Challenge, 1915β1933'' (1957); ''Ford: Decline and Rebirth, 1933β1962'' (1963) comprehensive scholarly history * Nolan; Mary. ''Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany'' (1994) * {{Cite journal |last=Pietrykowski |first=Bruce |year=1995 |title=Fordism at Ford: Spatial Decentralization and Labor Segmentation at the Ford Motor Company, 1920β1950 |journal=Economic Geography |volume=71 |issue=4 |pages=383β401 |doi=10.2307/144424 |jstor=144424}} * {{Cite journal |last=Raff |first=Daniel M. G. and Lawrence H. Summers |s2cid=158557619 |date=October 1987 |title=Did Henry Ford Pay Efficiency Wages? |url=http://www.nber.org/papers/w2101.pdf |journal=Journal of Labor Economics |volume=5 |issue=4 |pages=S57βS86 |doi=10.1086/298165}} * Roediger, David, ed. "Americanism and FordismβAmerican Style: Kate Richards O'hare's 'Has Henry Ford Made Good?'", ''Labor History'' 1988. 29(2): 241β252. Socialist praise for Ford in 1916. * Segal, Howard P. "'Little Plants in the Country': Henry Ford's Village Industries and the Beginning of Decentralized Technology in Modern America", ''Prospects'' 1988. 13: 181β223. Ford created 19 rural workplaces as pastoral retreats. * Tedlow, Richard S. "The Struggle for Dominance in the Automobile Market: the Early Years of Ford and General Motors", ''Business and Economic History'' 1988. 17: 49β62. Ford stressed low price based on efficient factories but GM did better in oligopolistic competition by including investment in manufacturing, marketing, and management. * Thomas, Robert Paul. "The Automobile Industry and its Tycoon", ''Explorations in Entrepreneurial History'' 1969. 6(2): 139β157. argues Ford did NOT have much influence on US industry, * ValdΓ©s, Dennis Nodin. "Perspiring Capitalists: Latinos and the Henry Ford Service School, 1918β1928", ''AztlΓ‘n'' 1981. 12(2): 227β239. Ford brought hundreds of Mexicans in for training as managers. * [[Mira Wilkins|Wilkins, Mira]] and Frank Ernest Hill, ''American Business Abroad: Ford on Six Continents'' Wayne State University Press, 1964. * Williams, Karel, Colin Haslam and John Williams, "Ford versus 'Fordism': The Beginning of Mass Production?", ''Work, Employment & Society'', Vol. 6, No. 4, 517β555 (1992), stress on Ford's flexibility and commitment to continuous improvements. {{refend}}
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