Employee Records of the Ford Motor Company [Detroit Area], 1918-1947 (ICPSR 6352)

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Warren C. Whatley; Gavin Wright

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06352.v1

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This data collection contains work histories of employees of the Ford Motor Company. A complete work history for each employee is presented, including wage rates, occupation, dates of hire, length of time on the job, reasons for leaving, and job performance ratings. Demographic information in the collection includes date of birth, gender, marital status, race, ethnicity, place of birth, citizenship, and English language ability.

Whatley, Warren C., and Wright, Gavin. Employee Records of the Ford Motor Company [Detroit Area], 1918-1947. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06352.v1

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National Science Foundation (NSF: SES-8300696 and SES-8910514), University of Michigan
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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1918 -- 1947
1989 -- 1991
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Stratified random sample of 4,144 employees.

Persons employed between 1918 and 1947 in Detroit-area plants of the Ford Motor Company. Also included are mine workers, tugboat operators, and farm workers in other Ford Motor Company operations.

manuscript employee records of the Ford Motor Company housed at the Ford Industrial Archive in Redford, Michigan

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1995-06-05

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Whatley, Warren C., and Gavin Wright. Employee Records of the Ford Motor Company [Detroit Area], 1918-1947. ICPSR06352-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1995. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06352.v1

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 5 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

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