Famously formed rabbi rabbi franklin, leo franklin. In the middle of the whole series of antisemitic articles, what do you think franklin did when he got a free card from henry ford . Returned it. You know. You must have the wrong person here. Youre just accusing jews of all sorts of things, how can you offer mo a gift . Henry ford was deeply surprised. Im talking about the jews, im not talking about you. And even though this is humorous to us it does remind us of an important theme in the scholarship, which we talked about early on. The mythical jew and the jew next door. To henry ford, hes the jew next door. Hes highly respected, honorable, an important religious leader. I want to be on good terms with him. Hes an important figure. Ill send him a card. From franklins point of view, if youre writing all of these negative things about jews, then i side with them. But its an interesting k356r78. An interesting example how in the antisesemitic mind you can simultaneously sometimes, you k
And distribute the deerborn independent. So it is going to be a much more important newspaper than you know had he just remained a very local newspaper in deerborn, and he buys the paper and sets it up, gets going in 1919. Its called the deerborn independent but honestly it wasnt independent at all. Its a free country call it whatever you like, independent but it was actually totally dependent on the Ford Motor Company. And not surprisingly if you were to read a run of the paper, its views and the views of henry ford are remarkably similar. That shouldnt surprise us. You know, that would be true of any newspaper that reflects the views of its owners. But the paper is very much in favor of pacifism. It likes prohibition, meaning thateih n its in favor of limiting alcohol, which ford thought was wicked. It supports all sorts of old traditions. One of the most Interesting Articles and the title of the article tells you a lot about the outlook of henry ford is an editorial that was entitle
Century but take on an expertdriven advice. The new housekeeping efficiency study in home management. Household engineer and professional consultant. One question we might pose here, i think its clear how much frederick is indebted to spun like taylor. Right . But how much has changed in the envisioning of the household from the time of the beacher sisters in the 1860s to this moment . Whats changed and whats remained the same . Nothing is every totally a break with the past, we might say. What strikes about you this . She has taken this idea of the Scientific Method and applied it to make it as efficient as possible and saving time in everything way and everything is planned out. At the end i was interested when she threw out this is why this is so important and women are leaving becoming mothers to join the work force and thats slil because housekeeping is so important. That reminded me of the beacher sisters. It was her taking the new methods but keeping the ideal of household keepi
Century. And especially lay consumer culture. We talked about the motor behind the story, and i think we settled on one word. Desire. Desire was the kind of engine with the story. Wanting what you cant have. Always being able to see what is ahead of you that is elusive that youre trying to grasp. And thats what makes things happen in the novel. Remember that carrie is never satisfied. And recall the department store, right . Where he felt as he tells us the claim of each trinket and valuable upon her personally. We talked a little bit too about the moral of the story. A moral for the 20th ench ri maybe that there is no moral, right . Things happen to people. Good things happen to bad people, right . People arent punished for bad deeds. In fact sometimes like carrie, theyre rewarded. So what he8f kind of Success Story at vik torn period. That victorian ladder of virtue. The changing of fortunes was not the result of strong character or even of planning and preparedness. Think back to th
Who sought to improve industrial efficiency. This class is about an hour and 20 minutes. All right. Great. Hello, everybody. As you know, we will take up the topic in janay ring and worth as andrson engineering worth as a person. I put up here the cover of one of Theodore Dreisers novels, and what wee, have been considering is a kind of fictional assault, right . On the victorian moral order. Oks, inre dreiser for naturalistic fiction. In Theodore Dreisers case, in naturalistic fiction. He set his story, as you know, in the booming, bustling town of chicago. And to use chicago as a kind of character in this story, to look busts, thems, the travails of the characters in his novel. Just to summarize where we got we saw the workings of many things. Not just a story, but a kind of commentary on early 20thcentury Century America and especially urban industrial america. We saw the workings of a new economy. The novel espoused as a kind of allegory for capitalism and especially consumer cultu