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Arena Magazine 109

Gillian Terzis

Dec 2010

Abstract:

Henry Ford’s legacy endures in a divisive new economic vision

In 1927 Henry Ford had designs on society. Determined to shatter the Dutch and British cartels’ duopoly on rubber, Ford decided to import the value system of middle-class America to Brazilian soil by creating a pre-fabricated industrial town, nestled in the rugged depths of the Amazon jungle.

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