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As the United States rose to ascendancy in the first decades of the twentieth century, observers abroad associated American economic power most directly with its burgeoning automobile industry. In the 1930s, in a bid to emulate and challenge America, engineers from across the world flocked to Detroit. Chief among them were Nazi and Soviet specialists who sought to study, copy, and sometimes steal the techniques of American automotive mass production, or Fordism. This book traces how Germany and the Soviet Union embraced Fordism amid widespread economic crisis and ideological turmoil.

Fordism. --- Mass production --- History. --- A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World. --- Adolf Hitler. --- America’s Assembly Line. --- Behemoth. --- David E. Nye. --- Elizabeth D. Esch. --- Five-Year Plan. --- Ford Motor Company. --- GM. --- Gaz. --- General Motors. --- Goering. --- Gramsci. --- Göring. --- Hermann Göring. --- Hitler. --- Joseph Stalin. --- Joshua B. Freeman. --- Managing Race in the Ford Empire. --- Nazi Germany. --- Nep. --- Nikolai Osinskii. --- Stalin. --- The Color Line and the Assembly Line. --- Volkswagen. --- Weimar. --- assembly line. --- car manufacturing. --- industrial policy. --- people’s car.