Henry Ford doubled the wages of workers and established the 40 hour work week. He used to visit workers who fell ill. He established the safest and most effective manufacturing workplace at the time and implemented ideas from anyone who could show how to make the process better.
Along came the union and government to improve the plight of the working man - and it was all down hill from there.
The best quote in the article:
"A city founded in 1701 as a trading post that became one of the strongest in the world. A city that manufactured the means by which the world defeated fascism was taken out by the economic ideological cousin of that philosophy."
... a must read on how to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs for many generations of common folks!