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The Ford River Rouge Complex: The Birthplace of Modern Industry and Its Dark Legacy

Henry Ford built the world’s largest factory — then crushed the workers inside it. The Rouge’s hidden history of massacre, fascism, and fire.

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Industrial empires built on worker exploitation, urban decay on a scale no other American city matched, and the ruins of ambitions that consumed themselves.

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