Business History articles from July 2001

Business History archives from July 2001

Family Ownership and Business Survival: Kirkcaldy, 1870-1970.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... For long, family ownership in British industry has chiefly been discussed within the context of a wider debate about British economic performance. [1] At issue has been whether the continued importance of family-owned firms in the British...

Fit for Management: Apprenticeship and the English Brewing Industry, 1870-1914.
July 1, 2001... The institution of apprenticeship in England has attracted limited attention from historians in the last two decades, despite its importance to debates in a variety of historical fields. [1] Since the publication of Charles More's Skill and the...

The Post-War Productivity Failure: Insights from Oxford (Cowley).
July 1, 2001... In the great themes of economics and society -- the pace of economic growth over centuries, the evolution and impact of national cultures, the advance of technology -- the individual actor is missing. The sweep is too broad and unintended...

The International Expansion of the Norwegian Banks.
July 1, 2001... Norwegian banks represent a small part of international banking and foreign direct investment in banking. Norway is a small country with a population of only about 4.2 million people; Oslo, the largest city, has less than half a million people....

The Ranking of Firms, the Counting of Employees, and the Classification of Data: A Cautionary Note.
July 1, 2001... Peter Wardley [1] has performed a very useful service indeed in correcting tables of largest UK employers published successively in this journal between 1983 and 1991 by Christine Shaw, Lewis Johnman and David Jeremy. [2] He is also right to...

On the Ranking of Firms: A Response to Jeremy and Farnie.
July 1, 2001... My article, on 'The Emergence of Big Business', [1] has prompted a rapid reply from David Jeremy and Douglas Farnie. [2] However, their commentary is flawed in many ways. Perhaps one good thing to emerge from this exchange, further validation...

Women, Gender and Industrialisation in England, 1700-1870.(Review)
July 1, 2001... KATRINA HONEYMAN, Women, Gender and Industrialisation in England, 1700-1870 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000. Pp.vii + 204. H/back ISBN 0 333 69077 X, [pound]47.50; p/back ISBN 0 333 69078 8, [pound]15.50). Mainstreaming gender provides the...

Industrializing English Law: Entrepreneurship and Business Organization, 1720-1844.(Review)
July 1, 2001... RON HARRIS, Industrializing English Law: Entrepreneurship and Business Organization, 1720-1844 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.331 + xvi. H/back ISBN 0 521 66275 3, [pound]37.50). This distinguished book examines the...

The Birth of Industrial Britain: Economic change, 1750-1850.(Review)
July 1, 2001... KENNETH MORGAN, The Birth of Industrial Britain: Economic change, 1750-1850 (Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman, 2000. Pp.144. ISBN 0 582 29833 4, [pound]15). Such has been the persistent outpouring of revisionist writing on the British...

Governance, the State, Regulation and Industrial Relations.(Review)
July 1, 2001... IAN CLARK, Governance, the State, Regulation and Industrial Relations (London: Routledge, 2000. Pp.xii + 209. ISBN 0 415 20263 9, [pound]55). Since the narrative of modern British economic history as one of 'decline' began at the end of...

Striking a Bargain: Work and Industrial Relations in Britain.(Review)
July 1, 2001... JAMES A. JAFFE, Striking a Bargain: Work and Industrial Relations in Britain, 1815-65 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp.ix + 273. H/back ISBN 0 7190 49520, [pound]45). James A. Jaffe has written a substantial contribution...

Standard Life, 1825-2000: The Building of Europe's Largest Mutual Life Company.(Review)
July 1, 2001... MICHAEL MOSS, Standard Life, 1825-2000: The Building of Europe's Largest Mutual Life Company (Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing Company (Edinburgh) Ltd, 2000. Pp.431; illus.; figures, plates. H/back ISBN 1 84018 290 3, [pound]20). This is a...

Industrialisation and Society: A Social History.(Review)
July 1, 2001... ERIC HOPKINS, Industrialisation and Society: A Social History, 1830-1951 (London: Routledge, 2000). Pp.x + 308. P/back ISBN 0 415 18778 8, [pound]15.99). This book provides an introduction to the social results of industrialisation in...

Gales: A Study in Brewing Business and Family History.(Review)
July 1, 2001... BARRY STAPLETON and JAMES H. THOMAS, Gales: A Study in Brewing Business and Family History (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. Pp.xvii + 192, illus. ISBN 0 7546 0146 3. [pound]49.95). Horndean is not a large place. Nowadays it is about on the...

Cash Flow and Corporate Finance in Victorian Britain: Cases from the British Coal Industry, 1860-1914.(Review)
July 1, 2001... T.J. BALDWIN, R.H. BERRY, R.A. CHURCH and M.V. PITTS, Cash Flow and Corporate Finance in Victorian Britain: Cases from the British Coal Industry, 1860-1914 (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2000. Pp.v + 152. ISBN 0 85989 651 X, [pound]50)....

Well Suited: A History of the Leeds Clothing Industry, 1850-1990.(Review)
July 1, 2001... KATRINA HONEYMAN, Well Suited: A History of the Leeds Clothing Industry, 1850-1990 (Pasold Studies in Textile History No. 11, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp.xiii + 336; illus.; maps. ISBN 0 1992 0237 0, [pound]45). The clothing...

Manchester: An Architectural History.(Review)
July 1, 2001... J.J. PARKINSON-BAILEY, Manchester: An Architectural History (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp.xviii +366; illus. H/back ISBN 0 7190 5606 3, [pound]20). Manchester's architectural history extends through almost two...

Rural Industries of the Lune Valley.(Review)
July 1, 2001... MICHAEL WINSTANLEY (ed.), Rural Industries of the Lune Valley (Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, 2000. Pp.viii + 152; illus.; maps. ISBN 1 86220 094 7, [pound]9.95). The Lune Valley did not play a prominent part in...

The British Seaside: Holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
July 1, 2001... JOHN K. WALTON, The British Seaside: Holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp.216. P/back ISBN 0 7190 5170, [pound]14.99). This is more than a pleasurable read, albeit without any...

Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption, 1939-1955.(Review)
July 1, 2001... INA ZWEINIGER-BARGIELOWSKA, Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption, 1939-1955 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp.xiii + 286. H/back ISBN 0 19 820453 1, [pound]40). The purpose of this excellent book may be...

L'industrie francaise au milieu du 19e siecle. Les enquetes de la statistique generale de la France.(Review)
July 1, 2001... J.-M. CHANUT, J. HEFFER, J. MAIRESSE and G. POSTEL-VINAY, L'industrie francaise au milieu du 19e siecle. Les enquetes de la statistique generale de la France (Paris: Editions de l'ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, 2000. Pp.214,...

Das 'Stahltrust'-Projekt. Die Grundung der Vereinigte Stahlwerke A. G. und ihre Unternehmensentwicklung 1926-1933/34.(Review)
July 1, 2001... ALFRED RECKENDRESS, Das 'Stahltrust'-Projekt. Die Grundung der Vereinigte Stahlwerke A. G. und ihre Unternehmensentwicklung 1926-1933/34 (Schriftenreihe zur Zeitschrift fur Unternehmensgeschichte, Band 5. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2000. Pp.639. P/back...

Bank Industri Utlandsaffarer. Stockholms Enskilda Bank 1910-1924.(Review)
July 1, 2001... RAGNHILD LUNDSTROM, Bank Industri Utlandsaffarer. Stockholms Enskilda Bank 1910-1924 (Stockholm: EHF, 1999. Pp.507. H/back ISBN 91 88595 37 4, no price given). Lundstrom's book completes an impressive series of monographs on Stockholms...

Ekluten. Forandringsprocessen inom Sparbanksrorelsen 1980-1995.(Review)
July 1, 2001... INGVAR KORBERG, Ekluten. Forandringsprocessen inom Sparbanksrorelsen 1980-1995 (Stockholm: Ekerlids Forlag, 1999. Pp.547. ISBN 91 88595 34 X, no price given). Ingvar Korberg's study on the process of change within the savings bank movement...

Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England.(Review)
July 1, 2001... PETER TEMIN (ed.), Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England (Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 2000. Pp.vii + 328; illus. H/back ISBN 0 674 00099 4, $24.95). Since the first colonists settled in New England, the area has been at the...

Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades.(Review)
July 1, 2001... HOWELL JOHN HARRIS, Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. pp.xvii + 456; figures, tables, index. ISBN 0 521 58435 3, [pound]30.00,...

Company Men: White-Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892-1941.(Review)
July 1, 2001... CLARK DAVIS, Company Men: White-Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892-1941 (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp.xvii + 298, illus. ISBN 0 8018 62744, [pounds]31). For nearly half a century,...

The Red Rooster Scare: Making Cinema American, 1900-1910.(Review)
July 1, 2001... RICHARD ABEL, The Red Rooster Scare: Making Cinema American, 1900-1910 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp.xix + 301; illus. H/back ISBN 0 520 21203 7, $28; p/back ISBN 0520 21478 1, $15). At the dawn of the twentieth...

Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment.(Review)
July 1, 2001... AMY SUE BIX, Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981 (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp.x + 376; illus. H/back ISBN 0 8018 6244 2, [pounds]35). This...

The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business -- Their Lives, Times, and Ideas.(Review)
July 1, 2001... ANDREA GABOR, The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business -- Their Lives, Times, and Ideas (Chichester: Wiley, 2000. Pp.xiv + 384. H/back ISBN 0 471 492477, [pound]17.99). This readable collection of short biographies opens...

Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies, from Jay Gould to Bill Gates.(Review)
July 1, 2001... CHARLES R. GEISST, Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies, from Jay Gould to Bill Gates (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp.x + 355; illus. H/back ISBN 0 19 512301 8, [pound]25). This book is an extraordinarily...

Airline Executives and Federal Regulation: Case Studies in American Enterprise from the Airmail Era to the Dawn of the Jet Age.(Review)
July 1, 2001... W. DAVID LEWIS (ed.), Airline Executives and Federal Regulation: Case Studies in American Enterprise from the Airmail Era to the Dawn of the Jet Age (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2000. Pp.288. H/back ISBN 0 8142 0833 9, $60). ...

From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games.(Review)
July 1, 2001... JUSTINE CASSELL and HENRY JENKINS (eds.), From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998, 2000. Pp. xviii + 360; illus. H/back ISBN 0 262 03258 9, [pound]22.50; p/back ISBN 0 262 53168 2, [pound]10.95)....

Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945.(Review)
July 1, 2001... SHERMAN COCHRAN (ed.), Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp.ix + 252. ISBN 1 885445 636, $20). The growth of the international economy during the nineteenth and...

The Dynamics of Asian Manufacturing: A Comparative Perspective in the Late Twentieth Century.(Review)
July 1, 2001... MARCEL P. TIMMER, The Dynamics of Asian Manufacturing: A Comparative Perspective in the Late Twentieth Century (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2000. Pp.xvi + 328. H/back ISBN 1 84064 231 9, [pound]59.95). Marcel Timmer's...

The Industrial Revolution in Comparative Perspective.(Review)
July 1, 2001... CHRISTINE RIDER and MICHAEL THOMPSON (eds.), The Industrial Revolution in Comparative Perspective (Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing Company, 2000. Pp.x + 268. P/back ISBN 0 89464 990 6, $24.50). This book is part of the publisher's Open...

Entrepreneurship: The Social Science View.(Review)
July 1, 2001... RICHARD SWEDBERG (ed.), Entrepreneurship: The Social Science View (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp.403. H/back ISBN 0 19 829462 X, [pound]45). The purpose of this management reader is to show that the social sciences have an...

The First Computers: History and Architectures.(Review)
July 1, 2001... RAUL ROJAS and ULF HASHAGEN (eds.), The First Computers: History and Architectures (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. Pp.xii + 457; illus. H/back ISBN 0 262 18197 5, [pound]26.50). The First Computers: History and Architectures is the...

The Delicious History of the Holiday.(Review)
July 1, 2001... FRED INGLIS, The Delicious History of the Holiday (London: Routledge, 2000. Pp.xi + 206; illus. P/back ISBN 0 415 13305 X, [pound]16.99). This book is not aimed at business historians, though they may derive some useful transferable ideas...

Brand New.(Review)
July 1, 2001... JANE PAVITT (ed.), Brand New (London: V&A Publications, 2000. Pp.224; illus. ISBN 185177 3231, [pound]30). Business historians have long been aware of the importance of brands in many industries since the late nineteenth century (if not...

Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process.(Review)
July 1, 2001... JOHN ZIMAN (ed.), Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.xvii + 379; illus. H/back ISBN 0 521 62361 8, [pound]40). This diverse collection of essays explores the analogy between...