Business History Review articles from March 1990

Business History Review archives from March 1990

Corporate liberalism and electric power system planning in the 1920s. (Government and Business)
March 22, 1990... Corporate Liberalism and Electric Power System Planning in the 1920s During the 1920s two groups of political leaders and engineers advocated opposing plans to restructure the electric utility industry in the northeastern United States. At...

"Electricity for all": the electric home and farm authority and the politics of mass consumption, 1932-1935.
March 22, 1990... "Electricity for All": The Electric Home and Farm Authority and the Politics of Mass Consumption, 1932-1935 With few exceptions, historians have portrayed early New Deal thought and policy as dominated by the vision of "economic maturity"...

Contrived competition: airline regulation and deregulation, 1925-1988.
March 22, 1990... Contrived Competition: Airline Regulation and Deregulation, 1925-1988 Airline regulation and deregulation, taken together, provide a uniquely interesting laboratory for testing basic concepts of political economy. During the forty years of...

British Rail's "business-led" organization, 1977-1990: government-industry relations in Britain's public sector.
March 22, 1990... British Rail's "Business-Led" Organization, 1977-1990: Government-Industry Relations in Britain's Public Sector In January 1982 a new form of organization was introduced into the railway business of Britain's nationalized enterprise, the...

News in the Mail: The Press, Post Office, and Public Information, 1700-1860s.
March 22, 1990... News in the Mail: The Press, Post Office, and Public Information, 1700-1860s The work of new economic historians all to often assumes the existence of integrated markets, without asking how they were created or whether they existed. A great...

Richard Peters: Champion of the New South.
March 22, 1990... Richard Peters: Champion of the New South "Atlanta Named Capitol; Peters Makes It Happen," the title of one chapter of this book, reflects the tone and approach of this worshipful biography of Richard Peters, one of Atlanta's earliest and most...

No Step Backward: Women and Family on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier, Helena, Montana, 1865-1900.
March 22, 1990... No Step Backward: Women and Family on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier, Helena, Montana, 1865-1900 In No Step Backward Paula Petrik examines the lives and activities of women in Helena, Montana, from 1865 through 1900. The monograph focuses on...

Flagler: Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron.
March 22, 1990... Flagler: Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron This fine example of business biography examines the career of Henry Flagler, and, in so doing, describes the early years of Standard Oil as well as the turn-of-the-century development of the Florida...

The Piano in America: 1890-1940.
March 22, 1990... The Piano in America, 1890-1940 The piano provides a subtle entry into the value systems of American society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Craig Roell has combined a study of the piano industry, with all of the...

Inventing American Broadcasting: 1899-1922.
March 22, 1990... Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922 Why is American broadcasting the way it is? In Susan J. Douglas's critical, functionalist view in Inventing American Broadcasting, broadcasting is an institution that, "by repeating and reinforcing...

Mill Family: The Labor System in the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1880-1915.
March 22, 1990... Mill Family: The Labor System in the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1880-1915 That southern cotton textile industrialists customarily employed families, rather than individuals, to work in their mills has long been well known to scholars of...

From Working Daughters to Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial Community.
March 22, 1990... From Working Daughters to Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial Community Using both social historical and ethnographic methods, cultural anthropologist Louise Lamphere seeks to explain why so many married women work for...

Perspectives on American Labor History: The Problems of Synthesis.
March 22, 1990... Perspectives on American Labor History: The Problems of Synthesis Over the past two decades many claims have been made for what was once called the "new" labor history. Deeply influenced by European scholarship (especially by the British...

Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women.
March 22, 1990... Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women This book offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the available quantitative data on women's work in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States. Goldin has...

The Corporate State and the Broker State: The Du Ponts and American National Politics, 1925-1940.
March 22, 1990... The Corporate State and the Broker State: The Du Ponts and American National Politics, 1925-1940 In recent years we have learned much about the "corporate liberals" among U.S. business managers, the executives who accommodated themselves to the...

Liberty, Property, and Government: Constitutional Interpretation before the New Deal
March 22, 1990... Liberty, Property, and Government: Constitutional Interpretation before the New Deal "Americans," write the editors of this useful and provocative collection, "cannot fully understand the meaning and significance of the Federal Constitution--and...

Power, Protection, and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commerical Strategy, 1887-1939.
March 22, 1990... Power, Protection, and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887-1939 David Lake has undertaken the ambitious task of attempting to provide a general theoretical framework for the analysis of international trade policy...

The History of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States to 1914.
March 22, 1990... The History of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States to 1914. The recent growth of research on foreign direct investment owes a great deal to Mira Wilkin's previous work on U.S. outward investment. This study of inward investment...

Saving Capitalism: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New Deal, 1933-1940.
March 22, 1990... Saving Capitalism: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New Deal, 1933-1940 James Olson believes that historians have underestimated the role of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RCF) in New Deal economic policy and with this book...

And The Wolf Finally Came: The Decline of the American Steel Industry.
March 22, 1990... And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline of the American Steel Industry After reporting on labor for twenty-seven years, John P. Hoerr, a senior writer at Business Week, became convinced that "the [competitive] problem in steel was rooted in forty...

Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry.
March 22, 1990... Technology and Transportation in the American Electric Utility Industry In this extremely readable account of the technological evolution of the U.S. electric utility industry, Richard Hirsh focuses on the origins of the industry crisis of the...

The Rise of the Entrepreneurial State: State and Local Economic Development Policy in the United States.
March 22, 1990... The Rise of the Entrepreneurial State: State and Local Economic Development Policy in the United States Peter Eisinger analyzes the historical evolution of economic development policies of subnational (local and state) governments in the United...

Markets in History: Economics Studies of the Past.
March 22, 1990... Markets in History: Economic Studies of the Past. If the title of this book sounds vague, it is not without reason. In Markets in History, the whole is exactly equal to the sum of its parts, each one of whic has no substantive connection to any...

The Bank of Upper Canada: A Collection of Documents.
March 22, 1990... The Bank of Upper Canada: A Collection of Documents The Bank of Upper Canada opened for business at York (later Toronto) in July 1822, and failed in September 1866. It was, for much of this period, the largest bank based in Upper Canada, and it...

Southern Exposure: Canadian Promoters in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1896-1930.
March 22, 1990... Southern Exposure: Canadian Promoters in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1896-1930 This splendid study of the tapestry of international finance and international business is a major contribution to the growing archives-based literature on the...

Lessons from the Great Depression: The Lionel Robbins Lectures for 1989.
March 22, 1990... Lessons from the Great Depression: The Lionel Robbins Lectures for 1989 This lively, compellingly written, and highly stimulating account of the inter-war Depression concentrates on the experience of the United States, Germany, Britain, and to a...

The Management of Collective Bargaining: An International Comparison.
March 22, 1990... The Management of Collective Bargaining: An International Comparison Studies of employer organizations and their strategies in industrial relations are rare. Until Keith Sisson's The Management of Collective Bargaining, systematic comparative...

The British Iron Industry: 1700-1850.
March 22, 1990... The British Iron Industry, 1700-1850 This volume on the iron industry in Britain during the Industrial Revolution is one of the Economic History Society's series of studies on economic history that now numbers approximately fifty-five titles....

Scientific Management in Nederland: 1900-1930.
March 22, 1990... Scientific Management in Nederland, 1900-1930 The organization of labor on the shopfloor is a field of research where business historians and historiographers of labor can cooperate productively. B. S. A. Bloemen's book on the introduction of...

E. Paillard & Cie, SA: Une entreprise vaudoise de petite mecanique, 1920-1945: Entreprise familiale, diversification industrielle et innovation technologique.
March 22, 1990... E. Paillard & Cie, SA: Une entreprise vaudoise de petite mecanique, 1920-1945: Entreprise familiale, diversifivation industrielle et innovation technologique In this careful case study on enterprise and change, Laurent Tissot tries to explore...

Divide and Prosper: The Heirs of I.G. Farben under Allied Authority, 1945-1951.
March 22, 1990... Divide and Prosper: The Heirs of I.G. Farben under Allied Authority, 1945-1951 Although economic growth in West Germany after 1948 was in line with the wider European trend, it was generally met with surprise. This surprise was mainly the result...

Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830.
March 22, 1990... Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830 Joseph Miller says in the preface to the book that his original intention was to write an economic history of Angola. In the end, however, the book expanded to include four...

Japan's Industrialization in the World Economy, 1859-1899: Export Trade and Overseas Competition.
March 22, 1990... Japan's Industrialization in the World Economy, 1859-1899: Export Trade and Overseas Competition In his book, Shinya Sugiyama tries to criticize the common view on the modernization of Japan in the latter half of the nineteenth century. In...