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Business History Review archives from September 1997
Patents legislation and German FDI in the British chemical industry before 1914. (foreign direct investment)
September 22, 1997... Introduction
From the second half of the nineteenth century to the beginning of World War I, the chemical industry experienced unprecedented growth and diversification. From heavy chemicals, which had previously dominated chemical production,...
Paternalism and pink collars: gender and federal employee relations, 1941-50.
September 22, 1997... Gender was central to the construction of federal labor relations in the 1940s. Masculine and feminine perceptions affected both policy and structure. Indeed, an examination of management policies and practices within the federal government...
"Business without a boss": the Columbia Conserve Company and workers' control, 1917-1943.
September 22, 1997... Early in the twentieth century, with the extension of scientific management techniques and the assembly line as dominant models of administration and production, industrial managers attempted to assert greater control over the work process. Their...
Industrial home work of the Dennison Manufacturing Company of Framingham, Massachusetts, 1912-1935.
September 22, 1997... Introduction
Labor performed for a business in the home of the worker, once a dominant production process, declined as work became centered in the factory. The industrial home work of Dennison Manufacturing Company of Framingham,...
Federal Taxation in America: A Short History.
September 22, 1997... By W. Elliot Brownlee Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1996. x + 190 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-521-56265-1; paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-521-65586-3.
Reviewed by Richard H. K. Victor
"Nothing is certain...
Funding the Modern American State, 1941-1995: The Rise and Fall of Easy Finance.
September 22, 1997... Edited by W. Elliot Brownlee Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 467 pp. Figures, tables, and index. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-55240-0.
Reviewed by Richard H. K. Victor
"Nothing is certain but death and taxes." While these two...
BFGoodrich: Tradition and Transformation, 1870-1995.
September 22, 1997... By Mansel G. Blackford and K. Austin Kerr. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 1997. x + 507 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, and index. $30.00. ISBN 0-8142-0696-4.
Reviewed by John K. Smith
Rarely has a slogan better...
The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930.
September 22, 1997... By Wendy Gamber Champaign: The University of Illinois Press, 1997. xiii + 300 pp. Tables, photographs, figures, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-252-02298-X; paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-252-06601-4.
Reviewed by Rowena...
Socializing Security: Progressive-Era Economists and the Origins of American Social Policy.
September 22, 1997... By David A. Moss Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. xi + 350 pp. Bibliography and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-674-81502-5.
Reviewed by Donald T. Critchlow
The ever-astute Isaiah Berlin divided historians into foxes and hedgehogs....
American Housing Production, 1880-2000: A Concise History.
September 22, 1997... By Mason C. Doan Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1996. xvi + 203 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, statistical appendix, and index. $39.50. ISBN 0-7618-0587-7.
Reviewed by William R. Childs
Business historians have for the...
The Motel in America.
September 22, 1997... By John A. Jakle, Keith A. Sculle, and Jefferson s. Rogers Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xiv + 340 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.95. 0-8018-5384-4.
Reviewed by Tom Hanchett
This is the...
Safety First: Technology, Labor, and Business in the Building of American Work Safety, 1870-1939.
September 22, 1997... By Mark Aldrich. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xx + 415 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, appendices, and index. $49.95. ISBN 0-80185405-9.
Reviewed by Sara E. Wermiel
The sad photograph of a steelworker...
Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935.
September 22, 1997... By Claudia Clark Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xii + 289 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95. ISBN 08078-2331-7.
Reviewed by Marc Jeffrey Stern
This engaging and politically engaged volume chronicles the...
Escape from the Market: Negotiating Work in Lancashire.
September 22, 1997... By Michael Huberman New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvii + 222 pp. Tables, figures, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $54.95. ISBN 0-521-56151-5.
Reviewed by Robert Hall
This book analyzes the social and economic changes...
Manufacturing Inequality: Gender Division in the French and British Metalworking Industries, 1914-1939.
September 22, 1997... By Laura Lee Downs - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995, xiv + 329 pp. Photographs, bibliography and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-8014-3015-1.
Reviewed by Christopher Johnson
This meticulously researched and splendidly written study makes...
Warhogs: A History of War Profits in America.
September 22, 1997... By Stuart D. Brandes Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1997. 371 pp. Tables, appendices, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0-8131-2020-9.
Reviewed by K. Austin Kerr
This book is of interest to business...
La Prima Ferrovia fra Venezia e Milano: Storia della Imperial-Regia Privilegiata Strada Ferrata Ferdinandea Lombardo-Veneta.
September 22, 1997... (1835-1852). By Adolfo Bernardello - Venice: Istituto Veneto di Scienze Morali, Lettere ed Arti, 1996. xv + 553 pp. Illustration, tables, charts, figures, maps, and appendix tables, notes, name and geographical place indexes. Lire 65,000. ISBN...
The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe, 1780-1914: Enterprise, Family and Independence.
September 22, 1997... By Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt - New York: Routledge, 1995. xi + 296 pp. Notes, further reading, and index. $75.00. ISBN 0-415-11882-4.
Reviewed by Jeffrey R. Fear
Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt's new book, a...
Textiles and Industrial Transition in Japan.
September 22, 1997... By Dennis L. McNamara - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995. xvii + 206 pp. Tables, notes and index. $37.50. ISBN 0-8014-3100-X.
Reviewed by Takeshi Abe
The textile industry played a leading role in Japan's industrialization from...
Le Groupe Mitsubishi (1870-1990): Du Zaibatsu Au Keiretsu.
September 22, 1997... By Claude Hamon - Paris: Editions L'Harmattan, 1995. 469 pp. 250 FF. ISBN 2-7384-3036-8.
Reviewed by Jun Sakudo
The 1980s saw a sharp increase in French reports on the Japanese economy and Japanese firms, including a number of narratives on...