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Inside Ford's River Rouge — The Greatest Factory Ever Built

For nearly fifty years, Ford's River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan was the largest and most famous factory on Earth. Raw iron ore and rubber went in one end. Finished automobiles rolled out the other. At its peak, over 100,000 people worked there in a single day. It had its own steel mill, its own glass factory, its own power plant, its own fire department, and its own railroad. Henry Ford didn't just want to build cars. He wanted to control every step of the process, from the raw materials in the ground to the finished car in your driveway. River Rouge was that idea made real. In this episode, we go inside the factory from its earliest days through the peak years of the 1940s and 1950s, the labor wars that nearly tore it apart, and the long slow decline that left most of the complex empty by the end of the century. Along the way, we look at what daily life was like for the men who worked the line, the brutal conditions of the foundry, the 1937 Battle of the Overpass, and what happened when the world's greatest factory met the reality of a changing America. Feel free to share your memories with us! Subscribe for visits inside the factories and assembly lines that built the things America grew up with.