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Reimagining Business History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Reimagining Business History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-04-15
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

A vigorous call for rethinking the field of business history. Business history needs a shake-up, Philip Scranton and Patrick Fridenson argue, as many businesses go global and cultural contexts become critical. Reimagining Business History prods practitioners to take new approaches to entrepreneurial intentions, company scale, corporate strategies, local infrastructure, employee well-being, use of resources, and long-term environmental consequences. During the past half century, the history of American business became an unusually active and rewarding field of scholarship, partly because of the primacy of postwar American capital, at home and abroad, and the rise of a consumer culture but als...

Endless Novelty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

Endless Novelty

Flexibility, specialization, and niche marketing are buzzwords in the business literature these days, yet few realize that it was these elements that helped the United States first emerge as a global manufacturing leader between the Civil War and World War I. The huge mass production-based businesses--steel, oil, and autos--have long been given sole credit for this emergence. In Endless Novelty, Philip Scranton boldly recasts the history of this vital episode in the development of American business, known as the nation's second industrial revolution, by considering the crucial impact of trades featuring specialty, not standardized, production. Scranton takes us on a grand tour through Americ...

Business Practice in Socialist Hungary, Volume 1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Business Practice in Socialist Hungary, Volume 1

This study aims to reconstruct the activities of enterprises and individuals over two decades in one developing country (Hungary), within and across four politico-economic domains (agriculture, infrastructure/construction, commerce, and manufacturing), from the initial Stalinist obsession with heavy industry (Volume 1: Creating the Theft Economy, 1945-1957) through later reforms paying greater attention to profitable farming and the provision of abundant consumer goods (Volume 2: From Chaos to Contradiction, 1957-1972, forthcoming 2023). It provides hundreds of grounded, granular stories for reflection, as reported by actors and direct observers, ranging from innovation and improvisation to ...

Business Practice in Socialist Hungary, Volume 2
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

Business Practice in Socialist Hungary, Volume 2

This book aims to reconstruct the activities of enterprises and individuals over two decades in one developing country (Hungary), within and across four politico-economic domains (agriculture, infrastructure/construction, commerce, and manufacturing), from the initial Stalinist obsession with heavy industry through later reforms paying greater attention to profitable farming and the provision of abundant consumer goods. It provides hundreds of grounded, granular stories for reflection, as reported by actors and direct observers, ranging from innovation and improvisation to obstruction, failure, and fraud. Further, it offers an otherwise-unobtainable close encounter with another world, famili...

Beauty and Business
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Beauty and Business

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-03-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Leading historians explore how our ideas of what is attractive are influenced by a broad range of social and economic factors. They force us to reckon with the ways that beauty has been made, bought and sold in modern America.

Proprietary Capitalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 452

Proprietary Capitalism

A careful reconstruction of the rise of textile capitalism in the Quaker City.

Food Nations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Food Nations

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-06-03
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This original collection abandons culinary nostalgia and the cataloguing of regional cuisines to examine the role of food and food marketing in constructing culture, consumer behavior, and national identity.

Enterprise, Organization, and Technology in China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 395

Enterprise, Organization, and Technology in China

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-12-13
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  • Publisher: Springer

Given the near-silence in technological and business history about post-World War II socialist enterprises, this book gives voice to a generation of Communist China’s managers, entrepreneurs, cadres, and workers from the Liberation to the early 1970s. Using recently-opened online archival resources, it details and assesses the course of technical and organizational experimentation at state-owned, cooperative, and private enterprises as the PRC strove to construct a socialist economy through trial-and-error initiatives. Core questions treated are: How did Chinese enterprises operate, evolve, experiment, improvise and adjust during the PRC’s first generation? What technological initiatives...

Figured Tapestry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 540

Figured Tapestry

A study of industrial maturity and decline, focused on the Philadelphia textile trades.

The Second Wave
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

The Second Wave

Though it had helped define the New South era, the first wave of regional industrialization had clearly lost momentum even before the Great Depression. These nine original case studies look at how World War II and its aftermath transformed the economy, culture, and politics of the South. From perspectives grounded in geography, law, history, sociology, and economics, several contributors look at southern industrial sectors old and new: aircraft and defense, cotton textiles, timber and pulp, carpeting, oil refining and petrochemicals, and automobiles. One essay challenges the perception that southern industrial growth was spurred by a disproportionate share of federal investment during and af...