ABSTRACT
As late as the mid-1960s, the City of Detroit, Michigan, the home to Ford, General Motors and Chrysler-the home of ‘Fordist’, productionline mass manufacturing-was still seen in America as a blueprint for future prosperity, a massive company town which had successfully neutralised the local unions and also created massive economies of scale in one large ‘industrial region’. The famous refrain of Henry Ford-‘What’s good for Ford is good for America’—still had some popular purchase.
