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Business History Review archives from December 1986
The making of telephone unionism, 1920-1947.
December 22, 1986... Perspectives on the Bell System: Strategy, Structure, Technology, and Unionism The Telephone Enterprise: The Evolution of the Bell System's Horizontal Structure, 1876-1909. By Robert W. Garnet. (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1985....
"To triumph before feminine taste": bourgeois women's consumption and hand methods of production in mid-nineteenth century Paris.
December 22, 1986... "To Triumph before Feminine Taste': Bourgeois Women's Consumption and Hand Methods of Production in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Paris
In 1868 Armand Audiganne (1814-75), a prolific writer and an expert on industrial matters, claimed that...
The decline of the piece-rate system in California canning: technological innovation, labor management, and union pressure, 1890-1947.
December 22, 1986... The Decline of the Piece-Rate System in California Canning: Technological Innovation, Labor Management, and Union Pressure, 1890-1947
The relationship between the form of wage payment and the evolution of capitalist enterprise is not well...
Employee attitude testing at Sears, Roebuck and Company, 1938-1960.
December 22, 1986... Employee Attitude Testing at Sears, Roebuck and Company, 1938-1960
In 1938, Sears, Roebuck and Company launched an employee attitude survey program that was to become one of American industry's largest and most sophisticated applications of...
Perspectives on the Bell System: strategy, structure, technology and unionism.
December 22, 1986... Perspective on the Bell System: Strategy, Structure, Technology, and Unionism
Divestiture of the Bell System in 1984 dramatically reversed more than a century of integration, standardization, and centralization. These factors together...
The telephone enterprise: the evolution of the Bell System's horizontal structure, 1876-1909.
December 22, 1986... The Telephone Enterprise: The Evolution of the Bell System's Horizontal Structure, 1876-1909.
Divestiture of the Bell System in 1984 dramatically reversed more than a century of integration, standardization, and centralization. These factors...
The anatomy of a business strategy: Bell, Western Electric, and the origins of the American telephone industry
December 22, 1986... The Anatomy of a Business Strategy: Bell, Western Electric, and the Origins of the American Telephone Industry.
George Smith, in his study of vertical integration, promises less and delivers proportionately more. By vertical integration,...
From invention to innovation: long-distance transmission at the turn of the century.
December 22, 1986... From Invention to Innovation: Long-Distance Transmission at the Turn of the Century.
Neil Wasserman's study of transmission technology offers the narrowest empirical focus among these books, but the broadest original conceptualization....
The Museum of American Textile History: archival sources for business history.
December 22, 1986... The Museum of American Textile History: Archival Sources for Business History
The Museum of American Textile History (MATH), formerly known as the Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, is devoted to preserving and chronicling the history of the...
The making of American industrial research: science and business at GE and Bell, 1876-1926.
December 22, 1986... The Making of American Industrial Research: Science and Business at GE and Bell, 1876-1926.
By Leonard S. Reich. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1955. xvi 309 pp. $24.95.)
The history of industrial research and development is...
The economy of British America, 1607-1789.
December 22, 1986... The Economy of British America, 1607-1789.
By John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. xxii 485 pp. $35.00.)
As the title and eighty-page bibliography accurately portray, John...
The craft apprentice: from Franklin to the Machine Age in America.
December 22, 1986... The Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in America.
By W. J. Rorabaugh. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. xii 270 pp. $24.95.)
Searching for the sources of working-class culture and consciousness, labor...
Robert Fulton: a biography.
December 22, 1986... Robert Fulton: A Biography.
By Cynthia Owen Philip. (New York; Franklin Watts, 1985. xii 384 pp. $18.95.)
Robert Fulton did not invent the steamboat, nor was the craft that he demonstrated on the Hudson River in 1807 called the...
E.H. Harriman: master railroader.
December 22, 1986... E. H. Harriman: Master Railroader.
By Lloyd J. Mercer. (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1985. xi 188 pp. $19.95.)
E. H. Harriman was a master railroader and a brilliant financier, not the swindling monopolist his contemporaries thought,...
Aerial pioneers: the U.S. Air Mail Service, 1918-1927.
December 22, 1986... Aerial Pioneers: The U.S. Air Mail Service, 1918-1927.
By William M. Leary. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986. 309 pp. $22.50.)
Entrepreneurs, the old saw goes, have one eye on heaven and one on the main chance....
From New Era to New Deal : Herbert Hoover, the economists, and American economic policy, 1921-1933.
December 22, 1986... From New Era to New Deal: Herbert Hoover, the Economists, and American Economic Policy, 1921-1933.
By William J. Barber. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xii
237 pp. $39.50.)
The Crash of 1929 brought an end to New...
The crash and its aftermath: a history of securities markets in the United States, 1929-1933.
December 22, 1986... The Crash and Its Aftermath: A History of Securities Markets in the United States, 1929-1933.
By Barrie A. Wigmore. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985. xiii 731 pp. $49.95.)
The stock market crash of 1929 and the subsequent...
The morality of spending: attitudes toward the consumer society in America, 1875-1940.
December 22, 1986... The Morality of Spending: Attitudes toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875-1940.
By Daniel Horowitz. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. xxxi
254 pp. $26.50.)
From the very first economics course, economists...
The quest for economic stability: Roosevelt to Reagan.
December 22, 1986... The Quest for Economic Stability: Roosevelt to Reagan.
By Hugh S. Norton. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1985. xvii
329 pp. $19.95.)
The book under review attempts to do three things, each in a separate section: to...
Economic security and the origins of the Cold War, 1945-1950.
December 22, 1986... Economic Security and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1950.
By Robert A. Pollard. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. xi 378 pp. $32.50.)
This book is a postrevisionist interpretation of President Harry Truman's Cold War...
Paul G. Hoffman: Architect of foreign aid.
December 22, 1986... Paul G. Hoffman: Architect of Foreign Aid.
By Alan R. Raucher. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1985. xii
208 pp. $22.00.)
Paul Hoffman was arguably one of the most important business leaders of the post-Second World...
U.S. Forest Service grazing and rangelands: a history.
December 22, 1986... U.S. Forest Service Grazing and Rangelands: A History.
By William D. Rowley. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1985. xiv 270 pp. $29.50.)
William Rowley's book, the eighth in the Texas A&M press's respected series in...
Silk city: studies on the Paterson Silk Industry, 1860-1940.
December 22, 1986... Silk City: Studies on the Paterson Silk Industry, 1860-1940.
Edited by Philip B. Scranton. (Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1985. vi 176 pp. $19.95.)
Paterson is the kind of industrial city now receiving close scholarly...
The rise and decline of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company.
December 22, 1986... The Rise and Decline of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company.
By William I. Walsh. (Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, 1986. 254 pp. $17.95.)
William Walsh has an ax to grind. During his thirty-six-year climb from clerk to vice...
A capital ship: New England life, a history of America's first chartered Mutual Life Insurance company, 1835-1985.
December 22, 1986... A Capital Ship: New England Life, a History of America's First Chartered Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1835-1985.
By Abram T. Collier. (Boston: New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1985. xiv 336 pp. $30.00.)
One of America's...
Sometimes the books froze: Wyoming's economy and its banks.
December 22, 1986... Sometimes the Books Froze: Wyoming's Economy and Its Banks.
By L. Milton Woods. (Boulder: Colorado Associated University Press, 1985. 198 pp. $25.00.)
Gradually the financial and banking histories of individual states are beginning...
Technology's storytellers: reweaving the human fabric.
December 22, 1986... Technology's Storytellers: Reweaving the Human Fabric.
By John M. Staudenmaier, S. J. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985. xxvii
282 pp. $35.00.)
Business history and the history of technology are closely related fields....
Technological utopianism in American culture.
December 22, 1986... Technological Utopianism in American Culture.
By Howard P. Segal. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. x 301 pp. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $14.95.)
At a time when our ambivalence toward technology is especially severe, Howard Segal...
Military enterprise and technological change: perspectives on the American experience.
December 22, 1986... Military Enterprise and Technological Change: Perspectives on the American Experience.
Edited by Merritt Roe Smith. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985. ix 391 pp. $30.00.)
This collection of eight research essays, a bibliographical...
The economic theory of the multinational enterprise.
December 22, 1986... The Economic Theory of the Multinational Enterprise.
By Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. xii 235 pp. $27.50.)
Books on multinational enterprise and economic theory proliferate, bearing titles...
Family business in the era of industrial growth: its ownership and management.
December 22, 1986... Family Business in the Era of Industrial Growth: Its Ownership and Management.
Edited by Akio Okochi and Shigeaki Yasuoka. (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1984. xiii 318 pp. 5,000 Yen.)
If this collection were a large business...
The IDB: a history of Canada's Industrial Development Bank.
December 22, 1986... The IDB: A History of Canada's Industrial Development Bank.
By E. Ritchie Clark. (Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 1985. xix
435 pp. $30.00.)
That small business has never attracted much scholarly interest is...
James Nasmyth and the Bridgewater Foundry: A study of entrepreneurship in the early engineering industry.
December 22, 1986... James Nasmyth and the Bridgewater Foundry: A Study of Entrepreneurship in the Early Engineering Industry.
By J. A. Cantrell. (Dover, N.H.: Manchester University Press, 1985. vii
279 pp. $33.00.)
In contrast to consumer goods...
The motor car industry in Coventry since the 1890s.
December 22, 1986... The Motor Car Industry in Coventry since the 1890s.
By David Thoms and Tom Donnelly. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. 243pp. $27.50.)
A history of the car industry will rarely be concerned only with automobiles. During the...
Wine for sale: Victoria Wine and the liquor trade, 1860-1984.
December 22, 1986... Wine for Sale: Victoria Wine and the Liquor Trade, 1860-1984.
By Asa Briggs. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. ix 192 pp. $22.00.)
The Victoria Wine Company, the oldest liquor retailers in Britain now with over nine hundred...
Property companies and the construction industry in Britain.
December 22, 1986... Property Companies and the Construction Industry in Britian.
By Hedley Smyth. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. ix 265 pp. $44.50.)
On British highways and in inner cities, the names Wimpey, Laing, Costain, Bovis, Mowlem,...
Sugar and slavery in Puerto Rico: the plantation economy of Ponce, 1800-1850.
December 22, 1986... Sugar and Slavery in Puerto Rico: The Plantation Economy of Ponce, 1800-1850.
By Francisco A. Scarano. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. xxv
242 pp. $21.50.)
During the first half of the nineteenth century both Cuba...
The development of capitalism in Northern Nigeria.
December 22, 1986... The Development of Capitalism in Northern Nigeria.
By Robert Shenton. (Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 1986. xx
170 pp. Cloth, $27.50; paper, $12.50.)
In this attractively printed volume Robert Shenton analyzes key...