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The Detroit auto makers helped create middle-class America back in
the day when they were called the Big Three and there were no Subarus on
U.S. roads – or Hondas, Hyundais or Toyotas for that matter.
The $5-a-day wage that Henry Ford began paying his workers in
1914 was generous at the time and was aimed in part at giving them
enough money to buy the Model Ts they were bolting together. By the
middle of the 20th Century, workers at Chrysler Corp., Ford Motor Co.
and General Motors Corp. earned higher wages and better benefits than
any other factory workers.
The work was – and still is – exhausting and mind-numbing, but the
money allowed workers to flock to suburbia, buy new cars, cottages and
boats and pay university tuition for their children.
What was good for General Motors was good for the country, and
people in the heart of the auto industry in Michigan were better off than
much of the rest of the country.
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