Business History articles from January 2000

Business History archives from January 2000

Builders: Herman and George R. Brown.(Review)
January 1, 2000... JOSEPH A. PRATT and CHRISTOPHER J. CASTANEDA, Builders: Herman and George R. Brown (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. Pp.xxi + 326; illus. H/back ISBN 0 89096 840 3, $36.95). Scholars are moving business history in exciting...

Professor Shin-ichi Yonekawa.(Obituary)
January 1, 2000... Professor Shin-ichi Yonekawa, a long-standing member of this journal's editorial board, died in Tokyo on 18 November 1999. He was one of the pioneers of Japanese business history and one of the leaders within Japanese economic history. ...

Ossified or Dynamic? Structure, Markets and the Competitive Process in the British Business System of the Nineteenth Century.
January 1, 2000... This article challenges an interpretation of early and mid-Victorian business history which has emphasised the damaging effects observable during the late nineteenth century of a prior ossification of the industrial structure and of an...

Evidence of the Existence of an Internal Labour Market in the Great Eastern Railway Company, 1875-1905.
January 1, 2000... Evidence from promotion ladders and the wage payment system of the GER is evaluated to see if it supports existing claims, primarily based on welfare and pension provision, that by 1900 the railway companies had become the first important...

The Nature and Structure of Trade-Financial Networks: Evidence from the New Zealand Pastoral Sector.
January 1, 2000... Recent work on business organisation has shown how a network based upon trade can evolve into a more widely embracing trade and financial network. A growing network may also engender leaders who intermediate to reduce communication costs. This...

Public Subsidy and Private Divestment: The Lancashire Cotton Textile Industry, c.1950-c.1965.
January 1, 2000... The investment and divestment policies of Lancashire cotton companies are examined by reference to historical financial and other archival data. Capital/product market and political/institutional constraints on entrepreneurial behaviour are...

From Shop Floor to Boardroom: The Historical Evolution of Australian Management Consulting, 1940s to 1980s.
January 1, 2000... This article traces the historical development of management consulting in Australia. While some observers have argued the origins of management consulting involved primarily executive and board-level advice over corporate strategy and...

Medieval Merchants: York, Hull and Beverley in the Later Middle Ages.(Review)
January 1, 2000... JENNY KERMODE, Medieval Merchants: York, Hull and Beverley in the Later Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.xviii + 381; maps. ISBN 0 521 49737 X, [pounds]45, $69.95). In the fourteenth century Yorkshire had three...

Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer: Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century.(Review)
January 1, 2000... JOHN R. HARRIS, Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer: Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. Pp.xviii + 655; illus. ISBN 0 85967 827 X, [pounds]65). This keenly awaited monograph is, sadly, the last...

The Making of the British Middle Class? Studies of Regional and Cultural Diversity since the Eighteenth Century.(Review)
January 1, 2000... ALAN KIDD and DAVID NICHOLLS (eds.), The Making of the British Middle Class? Studies of Regional and Cultural Diversity since the Eighteenth Century (Stroud: Sutton, 1998. Pp.xl + 311. H/back ISBN 0 7509 1780 6, [pounds]50; p/back ISBN 0 7509...

A Sense of Security: 150 Years of Prudential.(Review)
January 1, 2000... LAURIE DENNETT, A Sense of Security: 150 Years of Prudential (Cambridge: Granta, 1998. Pp.ix + 438; illus.; tables and graphs. H/back ISBN 1 85757 060 X, [pounds]35). The Prudential has dominated the British insurance market and ranked as...

Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Imperialism: The New Debate on Empire.(Review)
January 1, 2000... RAYMOND E. DUMETT (ed.), Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Imperialism: The New Debate on Empire (London and New York: Longman, 1999. Pp.xiii + 234. P/back ISBN 0 582 327822, [pounds]14.99). The Cain and Hopkins thesis, that the...

British Industrial Decline.(Review)
January 1, 2000... JEAN-PIERRE DORMOIS and MICHAEL DINTENFASS (eds.), British Industrial Decline (London: Routledge, 1999, Pp.xii + 234. ISBN 04151 7231 4, [pounds]55). It is time to stop worrying and writing about British industrial and/or economic decline....

Dublin's Merchant-Quaker: Anthony Sharp and the Community of Friends, 1643-1707.(Review)
January 1, 2000... RICHARD L. GREAVES, Dublin's Merchant-Quaker: Anthony Sharp and the Community of Friends, 1643-1707 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp.337. ISBN 08047 34526, [pounds]32.50). Anthony Sharp was born in Tetbury,...

Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France.(Review)
January 1, 2000... JUDITH A. MILLER, Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700-1860 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp.xviii + 334. ISBN 0 521 62129 1, [pound]30). Historians of the relationship between...

Luxury Trades and Consumerism in Ancien Regime Paris: Studies in the History of the Skilled Labour Force.(Review)
January 1, 2000... ROBERT FOX and ANTHONY TUCKER (eds.), Luxury Trades and Consumerism in Ancien Regime Paris: Studies in the History of the Skilled Labour Force (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. Pp.xviii + 307. ISBN 0 86078 664 1, [pounds]49.50). The French...

Professionen und Professionisten: Die Dachsbergsche Volksbesczreibung im Kurfurstentum Baiern.(Review)
January 1, 2000... MARKUS A. DENZEL, Professionen und Professionisten: Die Dachsbergsche Volksbesczreibung im Kurfurstentum Baiern (1771-1781) (Vierteljahrschrift fur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Beiheft 139, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1998. Pp.517; maps....

Rewriting Capitalism: Literature and the Market in Late Tsarist Russia and the Kingdom of Poland.(Review)
January 1, 2000... BETH HOLMGREN, Rewriting Capitalism: Literature and the Market in Late Tsarist Russia and the Kingdom of Poland (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. Pp.xviii + 240. P/back ISBN 0 8229 5679 9, $19.95). This innovative and...

Condor, Cycles, Motorcycles et construction mecanique, 1880-1980.(Review)
January 1, 2000... ALAIN CORTAT, Condor, Cycles, Motorcycles et construction mecanique, 1880-1980. Innovation, diversification et profits (Zurich: Editions Alphil, 1998. Pp.324. ISBN 2 940235 007, 150 FF). This book has its place among the business histories...

Hitler's Economy: Nazi Work Creation Programs, 1933-1936.(Review)
January 1, 2000... DAN P. SILVERMAN, Hitler's Economy: Nazi Work Creation Programs, 1933-1936 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp.x + 372. H/back ISBN 0 674 74071 8, [pounds]27.95). The author sets out to analyse the contents and importance of...

Flying the Flag: European Commercial Air Transport since 1945.(Review)
January 1, 2000... HANS-LIUDGER DIENEL and PETER LYTH (eds.), Flying the Flag: European Commercial Air Transport since 1945 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998. Pp.xii + 267; illus.; photographs. H/back ISBN 0 333 67354 9, [pounds]47.50). This should prove a very...

Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II.(Review)
January 1, 2000... GABRIELLE HECHT, Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 1998. Pp.453 + xiv. H/back ISBN 0 262 08266 7, [pound] 29.95). This is an intriguing book which analyses the place and...

Internacionalizacao e concentracao no Vinho do Porto, 1945-1995.(Review)
January 1, 2000... TERESA DA SILVA LOPES, Internacionalizacao e concentracao no Vinho do Porto, 1945-1995 (Porto: Cadernos da Revista Douro-Estudos e documentos, published by GEHVID-Grupo de Estudos de Historia da Viticultura Duriense e do Vinho do Porto and...

Firman. Familj och foretagande under 125 ar - fran A Johnson & Co till Axel Johnson Gruppen.(Review)
January 1, 2000... HANS DE GEER, Firman. Familj och foretagande under 125 ar - fran A Johnson & Co till Axel Johnson Gruppen (Stockholm: Atlantis, 1998. Pp.xi + 616; illus.; H/back ISBN 91 630 71134, no price given). The case discussed here is another...

Une approche franchise: Siparex (1978-1998).(Review)
January 1, 2000... ALAIN BORDERIE, Une approche franchise: Siparex (1978-1998). Financer les PME autrement. Le capital-investissement: des fond propres pout les entrepreneurs (Paris: editions Maxima-Laurent du Mesnil, 1998. Pp.222. ISBN 2 84001 163 8, 25 euros)....

The Business of Charity: The Woman's Exchange Movement, 1832-1900.(Review)
January 1, 2000... KATHLEEN WATERS SANDER, The Business of Charity: The Woman's Exchange Movement, 1832-1900 (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Pp.xi + 165; illus. H/back ISBN 0 252 02401 X, $39.95; p/back ISBN 0 252 06703 7, $16.95). Thanks to...

Getting and Spending: European and American Consumption in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
January 1, 2000... SUSAN STRASSER, CHALRES McGOVERN and MATTHIAS JUDT (eds.), Getting and Spending: European and American Consumption in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.ix + 477; illus., H/back ISBN 0 521 62237 9 $59.95;...

Why the American Century?(Review)
January 1, 2000... OLIVIER ZUNZ, Why the American Century? (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xvi + 254; H/back ISBN 0 226 99461 9, US$24, [pounds]19.25). In Making America Corporate, 1870-1920(1990), Olivier Zunz studied the social and...

Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric.(Review)
January 1, 2000... STEPHEN B. ADAMS and ORVILLE R. BUTLER, Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp.xi + 270; illus.; bibliography; index. H/back ISBN 0 521 65118 2, $34.95). ...

Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing.(Review)
January 1, 2000... PAMELA WALKER LAIRD, Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing (Baltimore, MD, and London: John Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp.xiv + 479; illus. ISBN 0 80185841 0, [pounds]30). Advertising agents have...

Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism.(Review)
January 1, 2000... JUDITH STEIN, Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp.xvi + 410; illus. H/back ISBN 0 8078 2414 3, [pounds]44.95; p/back ISBN 0 8078...

The Voice of Business: Hill & Knowlton and Postwar Public Relations.(Review)
January 1, 2000... KAREN S. MILLER, The Voice of Business: Hill & Knowlton and Postwar Public Relations (Chapel Hill, NC and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp.xiv + 251; H/Back ISBN 0 8078 2439 9, $39.95). In this post-modernist era...

A Short History of American Industrial Policies.(Review)
January 1, 2000... WILLIAM R. NESTER, A Short History of American Industrial Policies (London: Macmillan, 1998. Pp.v + 329. H/back ISBN 0 333 72090 3, [pounds]47.50). This volume purports to examine the history of industrial policy making in America from the...

Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the 20th Century.(Review)
January 1, 2000... ROSEMARY THORP, Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the 20th Century (Baltimore, MD: distributed by the Johns Hopkins University Press for the Inter-American Development Bank and the European Union, 1998....

Japanese Electronic Multinationals and Strategic Trade Policies.(Review)
January 1, 2000... RENE A. BELDERBOS, Japanese Electronic Multinationals and Strategic Trade Policies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, Pp.xiv + 404. H/back ISBN 0 19823332 9, [pounds]45). In the book that is the subject of this review, Rene Belderbos...

The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan.(Review)
January 1, 2000... ANDREW GORDON, The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp.270. H/back ISBN 0 674 80577 1, 21.95). Industrial relations in Japan have been lauded by same as a model of...

Korean Businesses: Internal and External Industrialization.(Review)
January 1, 2000... CHRIS ROWLEY and JOHNGSEOK BAE (eds.), Korean Businesses: Internal and External Industrialization (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp.1 + 148. H/back ISBN 0 7146 4924 4, [pounds]35; p/back ISBN 0 7146 4483 8, [pounds]35). This...

'Pioneering New Frontiers': An International Exploration of Current Initiatives in Business Archives.(Review)
January 1, 2000... LESLEY M. RICHMOND (ed.), 'Pioneering New Frontiers': An International Exploration of Current Initiatives in Business Archives, Proceedings of the Business Archives Council Annual Conference 1997 (London: Business Archives Council, 1997....

The Steel Industry in the New Millennium.(Review)
January 1, 2000... R. RANIERI and J. AYLEN (eds.), The Steel Industry in the New Millennium. Vol.1: Technology and the Market; Vol.2: Institutions, Privatisations and Social Dimensions (London: IOM Publications Ltd, 1999. Pp.332; illus.; tables. ISBN 1 86125 019...

The Invisible Industrialist: Manufacturers and the Production of Scientific Knowledge.(Review)
January 1, 2000... JEAN-PAUL GAUDILLIERE and ILANA LOWY (eds.), The Invisible Industrialist: Manufacturers and the Production of Scientific Knowledge (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998. Pp.xii + 379; illus. H/back ISBN 0 333 64753 X, [pounds]47.50). This...

The Global Restructuring of the Steel Industry: Innovations, Institutions and Industrial Change.(Review)
January 1, 2000... ANTHONY P. D'COSTA, The Global Restructuring of the Steel Industry: Innovations, Institutions and Industrial Change (London: Routledge, 1999. Pp.xx + 228. H/back ISBN 0 415 14827 8, [pound]55). Anthony D'Costa has undertaken an ambitious...

Industrial Organisation and Innovation: An International Study of the Software Industry.(Review)
January 1, 2000... SALVATORE TORRISI, Industrial Organisation and Innovation: An International Study of the Software Industry (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 1998. Pp.224. H/back ISBN 1 85898 8942,[pound]49.94). Software usually conjures up visions...

A History of Modern Computing.(Review)
January 1, 2000... PAUL E. CERRUZI, A History of Modern Computing (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. Pp.xi + 398. ISBN 0 262 03255 4, US$35). This book is a history of computing that covers the half-century since the invention of the computer in 1945 up to...

Free Trade Free World.(Review)
January 1, 2000... THOMAS W. ZEILER, Free Trade Free World (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp.xiii + 267. H/back ISBN 0 8078 2458 5, $39.95). Protectionism, it seems, is always with us and it is useful to examine the intermittent...

In the Hurricane's Eye: The Troubled Prospects of Multinational Enterprises.(Review)
January 1, 2000... RAYMOND VERNON, In the Hurricane's Eye: The Troubled Prospects of Multinational Enterprises (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp.x + 62. ISBN 0 674 44582 1, [pound]21.95). In this book, the late Raymond Vernon, one of the...

The Free-Standing Company in the World Economy, 1830-1996.(Review)
January 1, 2000... MIRA WILKINS and HARM SCHROTER (eds.), The Free-Standing Company in the World Economy, 1830-1996 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp.xxi + 480. ISBN 0 1982 9032 2, [pounds]70). Over a long period of time, the scholarly discussion on...

Technology and Market Structure: Theory and History.(Review)
January 1, 2000... JOHN SUTTON, Technology and Market Structure: Theory and History (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. Pp. xv + 676; graphs; figures; tables; bibliography; appendices; index. ISBN 0 262 19399 X, [pounds]33.50). This massive tome is likely to be...