Here’s an amusing quote, poo-pooing the idea that Ford gave a hoot about his workers, courtesy of Heritage.org

..Paying high wages to valuable employees wasn’t a redistributive plan—it was good business.
He estimated that the high wage reduced the number of new employees he had to hire and train by 200,000 people per year.
Henry Ford was the Steve Jobs of his day, and cars were iPods of the 1920s. Just as Apple pays high wages to engineers to produce cutting-edge gadgets, so Ford paid high wages to retain skilled labor to build cars. Ford paid these wages because the market allowed—nay, demanded—them. Far from driving a top-down progressive policy, Ford was effectively responding to the needs of the market.

Nay, I say. Heritage refuses to let any suggestion of respect for labor getting in the way of good business practice.