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**Consequences of Industrialization Case Study** **The Automobile Industry in Michigan** Pick a partner to analyze the causes and consequences of industrialization. Using the automobile industry as a case study, each pair will answer one of the questions from the list of “Questions for Investigation” below. In conducting your case study, you both should be prepared to discuss your topic for five minutes in the last lesson in this unit. Be sure to see the “Websites for Case Study Research” and “Rubric for Case Study” also located below. Although the website list is to facilitate research, you are encouraged to find resources of your own; this provides a great opportunity to practice your use of evidence. When you make a claim in their presentation, you should be able to prove it by way of an example using the automobile industry. Use the rubric to explain the requirements of the task. The teacher might also want to require a visual to support the presentation.

Questions for Investigation

 * 1) How has resource availability influenced industrial growth? Use evidence from the automobile industry to support your answer.
 * 2) How did decisions of entrepreneurs influence the growth of industry in America during the early 20th century? Use evidence from the automobile industry to support your answer.
 * 3) How did decisions of entrepreneurs like Henry Ford and others in the automobile industry differ from decisions made by earlier industrialists? How might the fact that automobiles are sold directly to consumers have influenced these decisions?
 * 4) How did the growth of industry affect migration within the United States? Use evidence from the automobile industry to support your answer.
 * 5) How did the growth of industry affect immigration to the United States? Use evidence from the automobile industry to support your answer.
 * 6) How did growth of industry affect the interactions between workers and the owners? Use evidence from the automobile industry to support your answer.
 * 7) How did the growth of industry affect Michigan’s economy? Be sure to identify a time period under study and use evidence from the automobile industry to support your answer.
 * 8) How did the growth of industry affect labor relations in Michigan? Be sure to identify a time period under study and use evidence from the automobile industry to support your answer.
 * 9) How did the automobile industry change the nature of American society? Consider where people live and work (land use) and how the automobile provided a new meaning to freedom.

Websites for Case Study Research**
Pay attention to the headings under which the resources are categorized. Some of these links may be broken.

General Information
Automobile History. History.com. 3 April 2009 .

“Automobile History – Part 1 – The Early Years.” Great Achievements. 3 April 2009 .

Ford Model T – 100 Years Later. YouTube. 3 April 2009 .

The History of the United States. The USAonline.com. 3 April 2009 .

Industrializing America. America’s History in the Making. Annenberg Media. 3 April 2009 .

Lampard, Eric Edwin. U.S. Industrialization. 3 April 2009 .

Sugrue, Thomas J. “Becoming a Motor City: Immigration, Migrants, and the Auto Industry.” From Motor City to Motor Metropolis: How the Automobile Industry Reshaped Urban America. Automobile in American Life and Society. 2004 .

The Showroom of Automotive History. The Henry Ford. 3 April 2009 .

Resource Use and the Environment
“History of Automobile Body and Chassis.” Car-Body Design. FTM Studio. 3 April 2009 .

Melosi, Martin V. Introduction. “The Automobile and the Environment in American History.” Automobile in American Life and Society. 2004 .

“Environomental Cost of the Automobile Production Process.” The Automobile and the Environment in American History. 3 April 2009 .

Natural Resources. 3 April 2009 .

Henry Ford
“The Assembly Line and the $5 Day – Background Reading.” State of Michigan, Department of History, Arts, and Libraries. 3 April 2009 .

Ford Motor Company. Idea Finder. 7 April 2009 .

Gartman, David. Tough Guys and Pretty Boys: The Cultural Antagonisms of Engineering and Aesthetics. The Automobile in American Life and Society. University of Michigan, Dearborn. The Henry Ford. 2004. 6 April 2009 <http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Design/Gartman/D_Casestudy/D_Casestudy1.htm>.

Henry Ford. The Assembly Line. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 3 April 2009 <http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/ford.html>.

“Henry Ford Changes the World, 1908.” Eyewitness to History. Ibis Communications, Inc., 3 April 2009 <http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ford.htm>.

“Henry Ford’s $5-a-Day Revolution.” Ford Motor Co. 3 April 2009 <http://www.ford.com/about-ford/heritage/milestones/5dollaraday/677-5-dollar-a-day>.

The Life of Henry Ford. The Henry Ford. 2 April 2009 <http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/hf/default.asp>.

The Rouge : An Overview PowerPoint Slide Show. The Henry Ford. 6 April 2009 <http://www.thehenryford.org/rouge/eduResources/rouge_overview.ppt>.

Shestokas, David J. “The Wisdom of Henry Ford.” The Economic Crisis and its Origins. 3 April 2009 <http://us-trade-policy.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_wisdom_of_henry_ford>.

Village Industries Program. Ford Motor Company. 7 April 2009 <http://www.ford.com/about-ford/heritage/places/villageindustries/666-village-industries>.

Migration in America
“Detroit’s Great Migration.” CBS Media and WKBD. 3 April 2009 <http://cw50detroit.com/random/great.migration.2.640847.html>.

Martin, Elizabeth Anne. “Detroit and the Great Migration, 1916-1929.” Bentley Historical Library. University of Michigan. 2 April 2009 <http://bentley.umich.edu/research/publications/migration/ch1.php>.

Sugrue, Thomas J. Motor City to Motor Metropolis: How the Automobile Industry Reshaped Urban America. The Automobile in American Life and Society.University of Michigan, Dearborn. The Henry Ford. 2004. 3 April 2009 <http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Race/R_Overview/R_Overview1.htm>.

Immigration to America
The Factory. Labor Matters. School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 2009. 3 April 2009 <http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/laborMatters/factory.html>.

Virtanen, Keijo. ”The Influence of the Automotive Industry on the Ethnic Picture of Detroit, Michigan, 1900-1940.” Publications of the Institute of General History. University of Turku (1977). 3 April 2009 <http://www.genealogia.fi/emi/art/article272e.htm>

Sugrue, Thomas J. Motor City to Motor Metropolis: How the Automobile Industry Reshaped Urban America. The Automobile in American Life and Society. University of Michigan, Dearborn. The Henry Ford. 2004. 3 April 2009 <http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Race/R_Overview/R_Overview1.htm>.

Interactions between Workers and Owners
Meyer, Stephen. Introduction: The Degradation of Work Revisited: Workers and Technology in the American Auto Industry, 1900 – 2000. Automobile in American Life and Society. 2004. 2 April 2009 <http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Labor/L_Overview/L_Overview1.htm>.

“Labor in the Craft System.” The Degradation of Work Revisited: Workers and Technology in the American Auto Industry, 1900 – 2000. Automobile in American Life and Society. 2004. 2 April 2009 <http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Labor/L_Overview/L_Overview2.htm>.

“More of the Same: The Rise of Sloanism and Flexible Mass Production.” The Degradation of Work Revisited: Workers and Technology in the American Auto Industry, 1900 – 2000. Automobile in American Life and Society. 2004. 2 April 2009 <http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Labor/L_Overview/L_Overview4.htm>.

Organizing the United Auto Worker at the Rouge PowerPoint Slide Show. The Rouge Tour. The Henry Ford. 6 April 2009 <http://www.thehenryford.org/rouge/eduResources/unions.ppt>.

The Workers. Labor Matters. School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 2009. 3 April 2009 <http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/laborMatters/workers.html>.

Effect on Michigan
Burton, Clarence M. The City of Detroit (1701-1922). 3 April 2009 <http://books.google.com/books?id=jd3s5skDDDQC&pg=PA533&lpg=PA533&dq=census+of+manufacturers+detroit+1890&source=bl&ots=SfQywAzU1q&sig=jtn0gbiv1lmM-85oCOnLcGG1C-k&hl=en&ei=unjWSdiUJaDGMr6vyYQP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2>. See pages 533-536.

Henry Ford. Detroit Historical Society. 3 April 2009 <http://www.detroithistorical.org/main/pdfs/HenryFord.pdf>. (Slide 4)

“The Making of Modern Michigan.” Michigan State University Library. 3 April 2009 <http://mmm.lib.msu.edu/search/index.cfm>. Organizing the United Auto Worker at the Rouge PowerPoint Slide Show.The Rouge Tour. The Henry Ford. 6 April 2009 <http://www.thehenryford.org/rouge/eduResources/unions.ppt>.

Sugrue, Thomas J. “Living in the Motor City: Autoworkers, Race, and Urban Geography.” From Motor City to Motor Metropolis: How the Automobile Industry Reshaped Urban America. Automobile in American Life and Society. 2004. 2 April 2009 <http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Race/R_Overview/R_Overview2.htm>.

“Motor City: The Story of Detroit.” The Historian’s Perspective. Gilder-Lehrman Institute. 3 April 2009 <http://www.historynow.org/03_2007/historian6.html>.

Motor City to Motor Metropolis: How the Automobile Industry Reshaped Urban America. The Automobile in American Life and Society. University of Michigan, Dearborn. The Henry Ford. 2004. 3 April 2009 <http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Race/R_Overview/R_Overview1.htm>.

Virtanen, Keijo. ”The Influence of the Automotive Industry on the Ethnic Picture of Detroit, Michigan, 1900-1940.” Publications of the Institute of General History. University of Turku (1977). 3 April 2009 <http://www.genealogia.fi/emi/art/article272e.htm>.

Wright, Richard A. “Chapter 3 – How Detroit became the Motor City.” A Brief History of the First 100 Years of the Automobile Industry in the United States. The Auto Channel. 3 April 2009 <http://www.theautochannel.com/mania/industry.orig/history/chap3.html>.

Changing American Society
The Automobile in American Life and Society. University of Michigan, Dearborn. The Henry Ford. 2004. 3 April 2009 <http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/>.

The Automobile. Powered to Transform Society. Labor Matters. School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 2009. 3 April 2009 <http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/laborMatters/automobile.html>.

“Early Adventures with the Automobile.” Eyewitness to History. Ibis Communications, Inc., 3 April 2009 <http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/auto.htm>.

Henry Ford. Detroit Historical Society. 3 April 2009 <http://www.detroithistorical.org/main/pdfs/HenryFord.pdf>. (Slides 1 and 2) “The History of the Automobile.” 3 April 2009 <http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/systems/agentsheets/New-Vista/automobile/history.html>.

Melosi, Martin V. The Automobile Shapes The City. The Automobile in American Life and Society. University of Michigan, Dearborn. The Henry Ford. 2004. 3 April 2009 <http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Environment/E_Casestudy/E_casestudy1.htm>.

Rubric For Case Study

 * ~ **Attributes** ||~ **4-Point Performance** ||~ **3-Point Performance** ||~ **2-Point Performance** ||~ **1-Point Performance** ||
 * ~ Answers the question presented ||= The presentation thoroughly and accurately answers the question presented. ||= The presentation answers the question presented. ||= The presentation attempts to answer the question presented but does not clearly do so.||= The presentation does not address the question presented. ||
 * ~ Uses evidence to support ideas ||= The presentation clearly uses relevant and accurate evidence to support the ideas presented. The evidence consists of information from the automobile industry as well as from at least one other industry for comparison. ||= The presentation clearly uses relevant and accurate evidence to support the ideas presented. The evidence consists of information from the automobile industry. ||= The presentation clearly uses evidence to support the ideas presented. The evidence consists of information from the automobile industry and is more accurate and relevant than not.||= The presentation uses little evidence to support the ideas presented. The evidence consists of information from the automobile industry but is either not accurate or not relevant.||
 * ~ Presentation style ||= The presentation is creative and engaging. It follows a logical sequence and all group members participate. All group members demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of the topic. ||= The presentation follows a logical sequence and all group members participate. All group members demonstrate an understanding of the topic.||= The presentation mostly follows a logical sequence and most group members participate. Most group members demonstrate an understanding of the topic.||= The presentation does not follow a logical sequence and there is uneven participation of group members. Most group members do not demonstrate an understanding of the topic.||