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In 1928, Ford Motor Company established Fordlandia, a 2.5 million-acre rubber plantation and industrial town, in the Amazon Rainforest. Native workers rioted two years later against imposed American work rules and behavioral restrictions. To alleviate tensions, Ford began building new housing and other amenities. The building designs, however, were patterned after management's Midwestern ...
Sep 14, 2016 · Ford retired from the rubber industry in 1945 after losing over $20 million in the Amazon (over $200 million in today’s dollars). The Brazilian government purchased all of Ford’s land for a ...
Henry Ford established Fordlandia and Belterra in the Brazilian rainforest to supply rubber for automobile production. He began shipping machinery and supplies to the Amazon in 1928. Ford paid the indigenous workers good wages and supplied various amenities -- he also imposed foreign work traditions and behavioral restrictions which the workers resented. The plantations failed and Ford Motor ...
Feb 14, 2024 · Ronnie Schreiber. 14 February 2024. Michigan Technological University. You may have heard about Fordlândia, Henry Ford’s hubristic attempt to start a prefabricated company town and rubber plantation in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil to supply Ford Motor Company with rubber, getting around a British monopoly on natural rubber.
Jul 2, 2009 · We speak with NYU professor Greg Grandin about his new book, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City. The book tells the story of Henry Ford, the richest man in the ...
Sep 3, 2015 · School Building, Fordlandia, Brazil, 1933. THF115500. Much has already been written about Henry Ford’s ill-fated Amazonian experiment, Fordlandia.In 1927, Ford acquired land in Northern Brazil, and envisioned creating a booming rubber plantation and town.
The plantations failed and Ford Motor Company disposed of the project in 1945. Henry Ford established Fordlandia and Belterra in the Brazilian rainforest to supply rubber for automobile production. He began shipping machinery and supplies to the Amazon in 1928. Ford paid the indigenous workers good wages and supplied various amenities -- he ...
