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The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-america Pasta dura – 30 junio 1984

Edición Inglés por Upton Sinclair (Autor)

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The Flivver King stands among the finest of modern American historical novels. It is history as it ought to be written - from the bottom up and the top down, with monumental sensitivity to the compromise and conflict between the two extremes. Its two stories - those of Henry Ford and Ford-worker Abner Shutt, unfold side by side, indeed dialectically. They are, in the end, one story: the saga of class and culture in 'Ford-America'. Workers and bosses, flappers and Klansmen, war and depression, Prohibition outlaws and high-society parties, unions and anti-union gun thugs - few aspects of American life in the first four decades of the last century are missing from this small masterpiece. The Flivver King sustains the same sure grasp of working class life which characterized Sinclair's earlier classic, The Jungle, but much less sentimentally and with a steadier focus on how alienated work breeds not only degradation but also resistance and revolt. Originally written in 1937 to aid the United Automobile Workers' organizing drive, The Flivver King answers the question "Why do we need a union?" with quiet eloquence. Kerr have reissued it as a great American novel and an important historical document, but most of all because that question has never gone away and is now more vital than ever. With an introduction from Steve Meyer.

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264 páginas
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Inglés
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Charles H Kerr Pub Co
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30 junio 1984
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0882860550
ISBN-13

978-0882860558
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Editorial ‏ : ‎ Charles H Kerr Pub Co (30 junio 1984)
Idioma ‏ : ‎ Inglés
Pasta dura ‏ : ‎ 264 páginas
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0882860550
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0882860558

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Jaime Axel Ruiz

Upton Sinclair, a precursor, almost a visionary

Revisado en Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 2 de septiembre de 2009

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Upton Sinclair was a precursor in his novels 'Oil' and 'The Jungle'. He was also a very good analyst about the way politicians and banks acted during the 1929 Depression. In `The flivver king, a story of Ford-America', written in 1937, he writes :

"The first panic lasted several days; then it passed, and there was a lull, full on anxiety. President Hoover called a council of business leaders to discuss what was to be done, and these big medicine men assembled, and agreed that the country must have confidence, and they told the country to have it (...) The only thing he could think of (the US President, Herbert Hoover) was to have Congress vote huge sums to his friends and beneficiaries, the great banks and corporations ( ...) The theory was that this money would seep down to the consumers and promote trade. But what happened was that the money stayed right in the banks where he put It ; they couldn't lend it unless they could see a chance of profit, and how could a business man promise a profit when he couldn't find anybody who had money to spend? It was the end of an era".

Does it sound familiar? Upton Sinclair explains how governments and bankers addressed the economical crisis. His story is only too familiar and somehow disturbing : they proposed more or less the same remedies, and made more or less the same promises than today, eighty years later. Are they smarter now? Or we will have more of the same ineffective medicine?

Otherwise, the book is written in a clear and engaging way, easy to read, because it was a booklet aimed primary, to a special public, the Union workers.

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Dragember

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Revisado en Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 26 de noviembre de 2012

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It's another Marxist novel that attacks big business. It shows the early innocent beginnings of Henry Ford and then attempts to demonize him for basic business decisions. I'm not going to go into too much detail. The book basically makes the main character unintelligent, and the main character loves Ford. The main character is supposed to signify the arrogance of the common consumer and their view of capitalism.

Ford eventually "goes bad", such as in the Great Depression when he laid off workers, just like every other business that didn't want to go bankrupt. Another example of his turning attitude would be the example of his conveyor belt. The horrors of the common worker doing only one simple task while sitting and getting paid way more than any other average worker out there. The book attempts to convey this as de-humanizing, but comparing the workplace to other locations of that age, it seems like luxury. Finally the book attempts to create an image of a dictator for Ford by pointing out how he eventually modeled every car the same, he took choices away from the consumer and forced them into buying one particular product. (Understand here, this vehicle was for the common man, and instead of seeing it as means for equalizing the classes, Sinclair took this in the negative light of "dictator" instead. This car could be purchased by rich and common alike. It baffles me as this seems to contradict Sinclair's well known ethics.)

Overall I think this book was just trying attack one of the few successful capitalists that weren't actually bad, but revered. I get it, "Capitalism is bad, no matter what".

Did I like the novel? No, not really. I wasn't very surprised with the presented biased, after all, it is Sinclair. Still, read this with care, it's non-fictional, fiction. The story line is not true, though there are "genuine facts" interlaced in the novel, but they're typically presented in a negative manner. Sinclair was hoping to create a movement like he did with The Jungle, a public uproar, which admittedly was needed. However this novel did not receive much attention, possibly because Ford really wasn't this demon Sinclair makes him out to be.

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Ben L.

Great Book

Revisado en Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 3 de octubre de 2015

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This book is an amazing look at the beginning and evolution of the Ford automobile empire. As is Upton Sinclair's style, he wraps the story in a fictional narrative and shows the effects of the rise of the Ford empire on a working class family over two generations. Personally, I really enjoy Sinclair's style and have read a few of his other 90 published books and plan to read more. I have read other reviews criticizing Sinclair as having a simplistic style and not getting into the depth of his characters. I can't say that this is totally off base, but in my opinion he does this on purpose because he wants people to see it's less about the characters themselves and more of a sociopolitical phenomenon. Also, Sinclair was a Socialist and ardently fought for most of his life for the causes of the working class. Regardless of one's worldview there is much to be learned by reading "The Flivver King."

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Edward F. Weber

There's A Ford In Your Past

Revisado en Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 28 de noviembre de 2014

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There's a Ford in our past and Upton Sinclair wants you to know about it. And it's not always very nice. Many of us have heard about Henry Ford's dark side: a loner, anti-semite, anti-unionist, labor exploiter, and Sinclair synthesizes this in a novella built around a fictional worker and his family whose loyalty to Henry is stretched to the breaking point. Ford's good intentions are not overlooked: love of country and tradition as evoked in his fine Greenfield Village and museum of industry in Dearborn; his $5 a day wage, a breakthrough; his Model T, an affordable car for all Americans. The contrast between the high life to which he was accustomed and the impoverishment of most of Detroit during the Depression is vividly described. Having read the biographies of Walter Chrysler and Boss Kettering, I found Flivver King to be very light on the production of the automobile, for want of a better description, the "automotive engineering" side of things. I missed any mention of the other automotive pioneers, Olds, Nash, the Dodge brothers, the founders of General Motors, and of course Chrysler and Kettering. Although Flivver King is short, I found it tedious.

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Short and sour

Revisado en el Reino Unido 🇬🇧 el 13 de septiembre de 2020

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The usual sour socialist diatribe directed at a man who produced something where others saw nothing but has interesting things to say about power and how it can blind those with it to those without it.

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