Culture
Ford v. GM , or birth of the office cubicle
Reading Edmund Wilson’s diaries, “The Thirties”. EW’s notes from his visit to Ford in 1931, for an article that appeared in The New Republic. He’s talking to a Ford exec, who “ran down the Chevrolet people, Chevrolet being then Ford’s rival. Did we know what went on in the Chevrolet offices? They screwed the stenographers […]
Reading Edmund Wilson’s diaries, “The Thirties”. EW’s notes from his visit to Ford in 1931, for an article that appeared in The New Republic. He’s talking to a Ford exec, who “ran down the Chevrolet people, Chevrolet being then Ford’s rival. Did we know what went on in the Chevrolet offices? They screwed the stenographers on the desks, whereas in the Ford offices everything was open and above board because they have glass partitions between the rooms and you can see what people do.”
Not sure it made it into the TNR piece.
