(0) THE launch 1 the Ford Model T in 1908 introduced the world's first affordable motorcar. The company's owner, Henry Ford, decided that 2 should pay his workforce well enough for them to be able to buy the cars they 3 helped to produce, something that revolutionised the American labour market and triggered a huge change to automobile manufacturing 4 over the world.
The company introduced the use of a motorised assembly line, dramatically reducing production times and costs, and enabling the company to sell millions of cars. 5 1918, half of the cars in America were Ford Model Ts.
Ford's '5-dollar workday' was introduced in 1914, more 6 doubling the minimum wage at the time, and is credited 7 stimulating the creation 8 the American middle class.