rdewar839797

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I was raised in Western PA in a working class family (coal miners and steelworkers) and received a BS from Penn State in 1968. I received an MBA from the University of Southern California in 1970 and spent the next 20 years working management jobs at large corporations, including Procter and Gamble and Ford Motor Company. At Ford I was shocked by the incompetent management and the confrontational nature of the auto plants, as well as the poor quality being produced. I felt certain that at some point the entire auto industry would simply collaps because you cannot run an industry like it is still 1930 in the competitive global economy. I wanted to give people a long, hard look behind the dirty grey walls of auto plants so they could see, up close, the kind of management that was destroying an industry. So I kept a daily journal of my experiences. I made copies of telltale internal documents. I made a collection of defective parts that were routinely assembled into Ford transmissions. Later, as these parts began to fail, 200 people would be killed, 1400 injured, and Ford Motor Company would become the only corporation in American History to be charged with reckless homicide. It would also receive the largest recall in automotive history - 23,000,000 Fords for defective transmissions. Only action by the Reagan Administration saved Ford from bankruptcy over this massive recall. I just recently finished my book. It is called "A Savage Factory" and will be available from the publisher, Authorhouse by early April.

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