To what extent did Ford’s practices revolutionise industrial manufacturing? I heard he did a lot of "weird" and contradictory practises, such as hiring investigators to invade the privacy of his workers and having police monitor the workers and give punishments for slow and bad work. How did these things impact industrial manufacturing? Were they beneficial?
/u/henry_fords_ghost, who is unsurprisingly well-read on Henry Ford, has some posts on the subject in /r/badhistory here. Perhaps he'll spot this thread and contribute more.