Ford’s direct control of distribution cut costs and enabled high wages.

Evidence

Recall here the experiments conducted by Ford and to the economies made by his firm through direct management of transport and distribution of the product. These economies affected production costs and permitted higher wages and lower selling prices. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1064

Categorization

• QUESTION: Ford’s vertical integration of distribution as a specific mechanism — worth chasing the numbers on his transport/distribution savings.

Related

• Ford’s wages fail to compensate for the exhaustion of its labour force. (similarity 0.82)
• Ford’s high wages derive from a new, more exhausting form of labor-power consumption. (similarity 0.82)