"In a smart, probing examination of Fordism as an intellectual and technical system, Stefan Link shows how societies as different as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union came to adopt innovative production methods developed by a quintessentially American car company. A fascinating story."―Joshua B. Freeman, author of Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World

"Link's beautifully written book illustrates the competitive race toward Fordist mass production in surprisingly disparate political and economic regimes across the world. Forging Global Fordism is an indispensable and lucid contribution to our understanding of the global 1930s and the importance of the interwar years in shaping the postwar order."―Vanessa Ogle, author of The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950

"Forging Global Fordism offers a reinterpretation of the history of Fordism by recovering the origins of mass production in the American Midwest and examining the role of Henry Ford's illiberal visions of political economy during the global 1930s. Link combines perspectives from economic and global history in a fresh and convincing way."―Kiran Klaus Patel, author of The New Deal: A Global History

"Forging Global Fordism presents a global history of the 1930s centered not on Wall Street, FDR, Tokyo, or even Hitler, but on Henry Ford. Viewed from Detroit, that rueful decade imparts one surprising lesson after another."―Oscar Sanchez-Sibony, author of Red Globalization: The Political Economy of the Soviet Cold War from Stalin to Khrushchev

"Forging Global Fordism is an exciting foray into the entangled histories of automobile production in the United States, Soviet Russia, and Nazi Germany. Writing with both passion and wit, Link addresses some of the most perennial and difficult historical questions about the relationship between politics and economics."―Lewis H. Siegelbaum, author of Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile