But this is a wakeup call for us to realize that the old idea of the black father who works for the River Rouge Ford plant in Detroit - that was a good thing.

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His first stops were in Pennsylvania and Ohio, then Michigan, where he was allowed to photograph inside Ford's River Rouge plant in Dearborn.

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Times have changed since Henry Ford made the River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan, into the ultimate in vertical integration, with iron ore going in one end and shiny Model A's coming out the other.

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The steel mill he bought in 1989 was part of Ford's great River Rouge plant, where the father of mass-produced cars turned raw materials into vehicles on a single site (see box, opposite).

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The steel mill he bought in 1989 was part of Ford's great River Rouge plant, where the father of mass-produced cars turned raw materials into vehicles on a single site -- transforming ore and rubber into finished cars (see box, p.122).

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So Ford set out to make his fledgling car company self-sufficient, building the massive River Rouge manufacturing complex just south of Detroit.

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