Introduction : the color line and the assembly line
Ford goes to the world, the world comes to Ford
From the melting pot to the boiling pot : fascism and the factory-state at the River Rouge plant in the 1920s
Out of the melting pot and into the fire : African Americans and the uneven Ford empire at home
Breeding rubber, breeding workers : from Fordlandia to Bel Terra
'Work in the factory itself' : Fordism, South Africanism and poor white reform
Conclusion : from the one best way to the way forward to one Ford : still uneven, still unequal.