The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America is a 1937 novel written by American muckraker and author Upton Sinclair.

The story follows the progress and growth of Ford Motor Company through the perspective of a number of generations of a single family.

The Flivver King demonstrates the effects of scientific management in factories.

The Flivver King explains how the Ford Company used scientific management to replace skilled workers while successfully increasing production.

[2] There is no mistake that the book was meant to provoke and challenge its readers; on the cover (seen here), as a preface to the first edition it is stated: What is Henry Ford?