Business History back issues from January 1999:
Rich Desserts and Captain's Thin: A Family and Their Times, 1831-1931.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... MARGARET FORSTER, (London: Chatto & Windus, 1997. Pp.xvii + 284; illus., tables. ISBN 0 7011 6394 1, [pounds]17.99). Many gaps remain in the ranks of full-length business histories, and one of especial value would be a history of United Biscuits (UB): from 1948 onwards the ...
The Quakers: Money and Morals.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... JAMES WALVIN, (London: John Murray, 1997. Pp.ix + 243; illus. ISBN 0 7195 5750 X, [pounds]22). The Religious Society of Friends, a group more commonly called Quakers, was the last of the many sects to emerge from the social, political, economic as well as religious upheaval of ...
Free Trade and Liberal England: 1846-1946.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... ANTHONY HOWE, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp.xii + 336. ISBN 0 19 820146 X, [pounds]45). Compared to the attention lavished by historians on the opponents of free trade from 1880 onwards, the free traders themselves have been somewhat neglected. In this valuable contribution ...
Davidsons of Mugiemoss: A History of C. Davidson and Sons, Makers of Wrapping Papers, Paper Bags, Paperboard and Plasterboard Liner.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... J.N. BARTLETT, (London: Athlone, 1997. Pp.xii + 208; illus. ISBN 0485 1 1514X, [pounds]32). In 1796 Charles Davidson, a millwright and son of an Aberdeenshire dyer, went into partnership with Charles Smith to manufacture paper at a mill on the river Don a few miles to the west ...
Religion, Business and Wealth in Modern Britain.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... DAVID J. JEREMY (ed.), (London: Routledge, 1998. Pp.vi + 195; illus.; tables. ISBN 0 415 16898 8, [pounds]50). Max Weber and his thesis about religion and capitalism are treated to yet another retrial in this conference volume. The result is another hung jury. Weber is a ...
Catalogue of the Beaverbrook Papers in the House of Lords Record Office, vol. 1, 'Canadian and Business Papers'.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... KATHARINE BLIGH, (London: The Stationery Office, 1997. Pp.xiii + 149. ISBN 0 10 850673 8, [pounds]45). William Aitken, better known by his title as (1st) Lord Beaverbrook, was one of a group of Canadian businessmen who settled in Britain in the early years of the present ...
Understanding Decline: Perceptions and Realities of British Economic Performance.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... PETER CLARKE and CLIVE TREBILCOCK (eds.), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xv + 313. ISBN 0 521 563178, [pounds]40). This festschrift for Barry, Supple takes as its theme the measurement and interpretation of national economic decline, the issues raised in ...
The New Draperies in the Low Countries and England: 1300-1800.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... N.B. HARTE (ed.), (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.xiii + 334; illus.; maps. H/back ISBN 0 19 921063 2, [pounds]35). This book contains eight essays and an introduction by the editor on the history of the new draperies in England and the Low Countries. ...
Agriculture, Proto-Industry and Mennonite Entrepreneurship: A History of the Textile Industries in Twente, 1600-1815.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... C. TROMPETTER, (Amsterdam: NEHA, Series III, no. 26, 1997. Pp.264; illus.; maps. P/back ISBN 90 71617 91 2, price not given). Twente in the Netherlands is a region of poor soils on the eastern side of the province of Overijasel, close to the German border. It had a flourishing ...
The History of the German Republic Accounting Profession.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... H.B. MARCUS, (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1997. Pp.xvi + 354. ISBN 0 8153 3010 3, $70). The author, of German origin, first qualified as a professional accountant in the UK (1950) before joining Price Waterhouse and spending the major part of his career in the ...
Railways and the Formation of the Italian State in the Nineteenth Century.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... ALBERT SCHRAM, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xvi + 80; illus.; maps. H/back ISBN 0521571596, [pounds]35). This book details the history of the Italian railways by focusing on their relation with the Italian state from the 1840s, when the first lines were ...
Un siecle d'histoire industrielle en Italie (1880-1970): Industrialisation et societes.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... MICHELE MERGER, (Paris: Sedes, 1998. Pp. 191. ISBN 2 7181 9057 4, 99FF). The Italian economy has an interesting present and a fascinating past. Innovation in industrial organisation, characterised by the small furniture and garment-producing enterprises of the 'Third Italy', ...
Duetsche Direktinvestitionen in Grossbritannien: 1871-1918.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... ANTJE HAGEN, (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997. Pp.356; illus. P/back ISBN 3 515 07152 0, DM 148). As regards international economics, the second half of the nineteenth century is usually described with terms like 'rise and growth of an international economy' or 'golden era ...
Optionen zukunftiger industrieller Produktionssysteme.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... GUNTER SPUR (ed.), (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1997. Pp.viii + 630. ISBN 3 05 501803 6, DM 148). A working party of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences considered, over the space of three and a half years, the options open to German industry in meeting the challenges of the ...
Magneti Marelli: Its History and Business Transformation, with an Introduction by Guyiseppe Volpato.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... RENZO A. CENCIARINI and STEFANIA LICINI, (Milano: Giuffre Editore, 1996. Pp.liii + 262, no price given). The Magneti Marelli company is one of the in-house names of Italian capitalism. Created in 1919 as a partnership between Fiat and Ercole Marelli, respectively the country's ...
Ouvrieres parisiennes, Marches dutrvail et trajectoires professionelles au Xxe siecle.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... CATHERINE OMNES, (Paris: EHESS, 1998. Pp367. ISBN 2 782713 212260, 190 FF). French historiography on women's history has received little attention. This study of female workers from the Seine district, during the twentieth century, is a major contribution to the history of ...
Les logiques de l'enterprise, la rationalisation francaise de l'entre-deux-guerres.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... AIMEE MOUTET, (Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, 1997. Pp.495; P/back ISBN 2 7132 1225 1, FF 250). Scientific management has had its 'golden years' during an era of both growth and decline before the explosion of the Second World War and is still ...
Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... NEIL GREGOR, (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp.xii + 276; illus. ISBN 0 300 07243 0, [pounds]25). Neil Gregor's detailed study of the Daimler-Benz firm in National Socialist (NS) Germany enlarges still further the growing and often distinguished ranks of ...
Europe and the Japanese Challenge: The Regulation of Multinationals in Comparative Perspective.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... MARK MASON, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.xiv + 162. ISBN 0 19 829264 3, [pounds]30). This is a slender study of how European policy makers coped with the sudden emergence of Japanese investors behind the walls of the European Community during the 1980s and early ...
Struktur und Dimension. Festschrift fur Karl Heinrich Kaufhold. vol. 2: Neunzehntes and Zwanzigstes Jahrhundert.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... HANS-JURGEN GERHARD (ed.), (VSWG Beihefte, Nr. 133, Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, 1997. Pp.608. ISBN 3 515 0706 4, DM148). In Germany today there is considerable debate about the value of the festschrift. Very often, it has been argued, these kinds of publications are only broad ...
Voluntary Annual Report Disclosure by Listed Dutch Companies: 1945-1983.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... KEES CAMFFERMAN, (New York: Garland, 1997. Pp.ix + 381. H/back ISBN 0 8153 3011 1, [pounds]25). Business history as a discipline has potentially much to gain from accounting research. This is especially true of the strand of accounting literature dating back to the historical ...
Political Economy of Financial Integration in Europe: The Battle of the Systems.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... JONATHAN STORY and INGO WALTER, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. Pp.xiv + 337; 26 figs., 10 tables. H/back ISBN 0 7190 4312 3, [pounds]45; p/back ISBN 0 7190 4313 1, [pounds]15.99). Asserting that 'few issues are more important in setting the agenda of economic ...
Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization: 1865-1925.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... PHILIP SCRANTON, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp.xiv + 415; illus. H/back ISBN 0 691 02973 3, [pounds]29.95). In a wide-ranging study Scranton identifies and explores forms of speciality manufacturing in the United States between 1865 and 1925, broadening ...
Blue Skies and Boiler Rooms: Buying and Selling Securities in Canada, 1870-1940.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... CHRISTOPHER ARMSTRONG, (University of Toronto Press, 1997. Pp.x + 390; illus. H/back ISBN 0 8020 4184 1, $39.95). This work is one of two volumes dealing with the evolution of securities trading in Canada from the formation of the main markets in Montreal and Toronto in the ...
Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... CHRISTOPHER C. SELLERS, (Chapel Hill, NC and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997). Pp.xv + 331; illus. ISBN 0 8078 2314 7, $45). Hazards of the Job is a major achievement with wide-ranging implications for business history and the history of medicine and government ...
Wall Street: A History.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... CHARLES R. GEISST, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp.x + 404. H/back ISBN 01 5115120, [pounds]30). There is a strain of popular literature in the United States that sees the activities of bankers, brokers and big business largely in terms of financial manipulation, ...
Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... COLIN J. DAVIS, (Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Pp.xii + 244. H/Back ISBN 0252 02312 9, $49.95; p/back ISBN 0252 06612 X, $19.95). Between 1916 and 1920 a tight labour market and a sympathetic government had encouraged a rapid expansion in trades ...
Life in the Shadows of the Crystal Palace, 1910-1927: Ford Workers in the Model T Era.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... CLARENCE HOOKER, (Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1997. Pp.210; illus; maps. H/back ISBN 0 87972 737 3, $42.95; p/back ISBN 0 87972 738 1, $19.95). The focus of this brief volume is the wage earner and underclass living around Ford's Highland Park ...
Making American Industry Safe for Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on the State and Employee Representation in the Era of World War I.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... JEFFREY HAY DU, (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Pp.x + 261. P/back ISBN 0 252 06628 6, $30). The relationship between government and labour in the US during World War I is the subject of two new, impressively documented books, Jeffrey Haydu's study, reviewed ...
The Engine That Could: 75 Years of Value-Driven Change at Cummins Engine Company.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... JEFFREY L. CRUIKSHANK and DAVID B. SICILIA, (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1997. Pp.ix + 589; illus. H/back ISBN 0 87584 613 0, $45). Jeffrey Cruikshank's and David Sicilia's The Engine that Could shows just how valuable company histories can be in enhancing our ...
Industrial Policy American Style: From Hamilton to HDTV.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... RICHARD D. BINGHAM, (New York and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. Pp.xvi + 230. H/back ISBN 1 56324 596 5, $55.95; p/back ISBN 1 56324 597 3, $21.95). The aim of this book is to survey recent developments in industrial policies in the USA. The bulk of the book is taken up with ...
The Renaissance of American Steel: Lessons for Managers in Competitive Industries.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... R.S. AHLBRANDT, R.J. FRUEHAN and P. GIARRATANI, (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.x + 178. H/back ISBN 0 19510828 0, [pounds]22.50). In the mid-1970s, the American steel industry was locked in its Middle Ages. Overall growth was sluggish, major firms lost ...
Revolution at the Checkout Counter: The Explosion of the Bar Code.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... STEVEN A. BROWN, (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp.xvii + 313. ISBN 0 674 767209, [pounds]19.95). The Universal Product Code - the familiar bar code on consumer products - is one of the most pervasive technologies of the late twentieth century. This ...
The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... THOMAS FRANK, (Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp.xii + 287; illus. H/back ISBN 0 226 25991 9, $22.96). In 1965, an advertisement appeared in America promoting Booth's House of Lords Gin. It featured a tie with the words 'Protest against the rising ...
Kids' Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... GARY CROSS, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp.vii + 283; illus. H/back ISBN 0 674 89830 3, [pounds]19.95). American business historians have now accepted the need to move beyond the institutional model of firm behaviour to understand modern success stories. In ...
A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... LAWRENCE B. GLICKMAN, (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp.xvi + 220; illus. H/back ISBN 0 8014 3357 6, [pounds]27.50). This book is a reconstruction of the relationship between the living wage and an ideology of consumerism from the end of the Civil War ...
Cargill: Going Global.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... WAYNE G. BROEHL, (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1998. Pp.xi +419. ISBN 0 87451 854 7, $26). This is the second volume of the corporate history of Cargill Inc., the giant US-owned trading company. It covers the relatively short period of 1960 to 1977 when Erwin Kelm ...
Cutting Edge: Gillette's Journey to Global Leadership.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... GORDON McKIBBEN, (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1998. Pp.xi + 429. H/back ISBN 0 87584 725 0, $35). McKibben focuses on the modern era of Gillette and the first three three chapters of the book deal with the company's first 75 years, from 1901 to 1975. During these ...
Managing Knowledge: Experts, Agencies and Organizations.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... STEVEN ALBERT and KEITH BRADLEY, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xi + 215: graphs. H/back ISBN 0 521 56150 7, [pounds]40; p/back ISBN 0 521 59887 7, [pounds]14.95). Albert and Bradley wish to demonstrate that expert professionals have sustained a punctuated ...
Commerce and Economic Change in West Africa: The Palm Oil Trade in the Nineteenth Century.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... MARTIN LYNN, (African Studies Series 93, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xvi + 270; maps. H/back ISBN 0 521 59074 4, [pounds]50). This is a fine addition to the highly respected series organised by the African Studies Centre at Cambridge. It has two distinct ...
Britain and Japan: A Comparative Economic and Social History Since 1900.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... KENNETH D. BROWN, (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1998. Pp.xi + 269; 2 maps. H/back ISBN 0 7190 5090 4, [pounds]45; p/back ISBN 0 7190 5291 2, [pounds]14.99). Writing a comparative economic and social history of two countries is not the easiest of tasks ....
The Economic Emergence of Modern Japan.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... KOZO YAMAMURA (ed.), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xvi + 369. H/back ISBN 0 5215 71170, [pounds]50; p/back ISBN 0 521 58946 0, [pounds]16.95). It was always odd that three major articles on Japanese economic history should have appeared in The Cambridge ...
The International Co-operative Movement.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... JOHNSTON BIRCHALL, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. Pp.x + 257; illus. H/back ISBN 0 7190 4823 0, [pounds]35; p/back ISBN 0 7190 4824 9, [pounds]14.99). This wide-ranging global history reflects the aspirations of the movement which is its subject and which its ...
The Corporate Triangle: The Structure and Performance of Corporate Systems in a Global Economy.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... W. LAZONICK, R. DORE and H.W. de JONG, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997. Pp.vii + 120. ISBN 0 6312 0715, [pounds]30). The dustcover statement asserts that a 'new and important view of the international differences in corporate systems' is presented in this volume. The three chapters ...
Technology, Innovation and Competitiveness.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... JEREMY HOWELLS and JONATHAN MICHIE (eds.), (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1997. Pp.xix + 235. ISBN 1 85898 428 9, [pounds]49.95). This edited volume is based on a Euroconference entitled 'The Globalisation of Technology: Lessons for the Public and Business Sectors', and, like much ...
International Business: An Emerging Vision.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... BRIAN TOYNE and DOUGLAS NIGH (eds.), (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1997. Pp.xii + 695. H/back ISBN 1 57003 012, $73). Conference papers are usually of uneven quality and do not attract as much attention as articles in journals. There are, though, exceptions ....
Finance in the Age of the Corporate Economy: The Third Anglo-Japanese Business History Conference.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... PHILIP COTTRELL, ALICE TEICHOVA and TAKESHI YUZAWA (eds.), (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997. Pp.viii + 269. ISBN I 85928 342 X, [pounds]45). This volume supplies much new information about the banking systems of three key world economies, Japan, Germany and the UK, at various periods ...
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... PETER L. BERNSTEIN, (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996. Pp.xi + 383. ISBN 0 471 12104 5, $27.95). Nearly 80 years ago, in his brilliant essay on Risk, Uncertainty and Profit, Frank Knight invited his readers to consider a world without uncertainty, where knowledge of the future ...
The Dynamics of the International Brewing Industry Since 1800.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... R.G. WILSON and T.R. GOURVISH (eds.), (Routledge, 1998. Pp.xv + 294. H/back ISBN 0 4151 4705 0, [pounds]45). Globalisation is a popular term in business circles nowadays, and for the business historian trying to keep abreast of recent developments any book that takes a broad ...
Foucault: Management and Organisation Theory.(Review)
Jan 01, 1999; ... ALAN McKINLAY and KEN STARKEY (eds.), (London: Sage, 1998. Pp.xiii + 241. H/back ISBN 0 8039 7546 5, [pounds]15). This collection consists of 11 papers, some of them already published elsewhere, and two of them contributed by the editors, sandwiched between a wide-ranging ...
The sources of innovation in the woollen and worsted industry of eighteenth-century Yorkshire.
Jan 01, 1999; ... Using the eighteenth-century wool textile industry of Yorkshire as an example, this article seeks to explain the genesis of the kind of innovation commonly associated with the industrial economy which emerged in England in the latter part of the eighteenth century.(1) A significant feature ...
Wealth making in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain: industry v. commerce and finance.
Jan 01, 1999; ... According to W.D. Rubinstein, the British economy became more oriented towards commerce and finance from the late nineteenth century. onwards, with only a 'brief interruption of factory capitalism in the first half of the nineteenth century'.(1) Consequently, Britain's economic performance ...
Banks, industry and finance, 1880-1914.
Jan 01, 1999; ... Investigation of the role of finance within British economic development provides the motivation for this article. In British historiography a great deal of attention has focused on the half-century or so before the First World War, with a lively debate about the role of financial ...
Textile business in Europe during the First World War: the linen industry, 1914-18.
Jan 01, 1999; ... The war in Europe between 1914 and 1918 has generated relatively few case studies from business historians writing in the English language. This is rather surprising since the unexpected length and cost of the conflict, unparalleled state intervention, massive disruption to normal trade ...
Corporate governance in France and the UK: long-term perspectives on contemporary institutional arrangements.
Jan 01, 1999; ... The Credit Lyonnais is involved in all imaginable financial operations from the most prudent to the most risky. It is a zealous company in all meanings of this strong term. The present leadership has a lot less experience and wisdom than ambition. (Banque de France, 1865)(1) ...
The study of big business: lessons from the past.
Jan 01, 1999; ... MARK CASSON (ed.), The Rise of Big Business: The British Experience (London: Routledge, 1997. 8 vols ISBN 0-415-15087-6, [pounds]475). Vol. 1, D.H. MacGregor, Industrial Combination (1906/1938); Vol.2, G.R. Carter, The Tendency Towards Industrial Combination (1913); Vol.3, H.W. Macrosty, ...