One way Henry Ford was a Practitioner of the Gospel of Wealth was because of the thousands of jobs he provided and the high salaries given to his workers. Since the start of his company, Ford gave good wages to his employees. In the novel The Flivver King, by Upton Sinclair, the main character Abner was very hopeful about getting a job at the Ford Motor Company. When Abner is talking to Ford about getting hired, he explains that he works very hard at his current job but never gets promoted and has no future there (14). After getting hired at the Ford Motor Company, “he was getting seventeen and a half cents per hour, the best he had ever done, and Mr. Ford had promised that if he worked hard, he would be promoted” (16). The novel shows the
