Articles and Chapters

Thus far, I've published four articles from this research, three of them quite long. They connect with, but don't repeat, one another -- at least, not too much. Through this page, you can get (a) links to the official published versions and to freely-accessible alternatives, available under the terms of my agreements with the publishers; and (b) a variety of "value-adding" extras which one can think of as like the "making of" freebies thrown in with a DVD. In the following list, the main title (in bold) links to a subpage containing other links and relevant content; the journal title (italicized) links to the official published version. The Google Scholar Citations [GSC] link, where available, indicates whether anybody has found the article interesting and/or useful yet. (Not many have, the fools!)

• “Inventing the U.S. Stove Industry, c. 1815-1875: Making and Selling the First Universal Consumer Durable,” Business History Review 82:4 (Winter 2008): 701-733 [Winner, Henrietta M. Larson Article Award, 2008]. [GSC] [Free Version]

• “Conquering Winter: U.S. Consumers and the Cast-Iron Stove,” Building Research and Information 36 (2008): 337-350; reprinted in Elizabeth Shove, Heather Chappells and Loren Lutzenhiser, eds., Comfort in a Lower Carbon Society (London: Routledge, 2010), pp. 33-46.[GSC] [Free Version]

• “'The Stove Trade Needs Change Continually': Designing the First Mass-Market Consumer Durable, c. 1810-1930,” Winterthur Portfolio 43:4 (Winter 2009): 365-406. [GSC] [Free Version]

  • "Coping With Competition: Cooperation and Collusion in the US Stove Industry, c. 1870-1930," Business History Review 86:4 (Winter 2012): 657-692. [Free Version]

There was also this work, most of it done ages before I thought I would ever write a book about stoves and the stove industry, but helping to make sure that, when I did, I wouldn't be starting from scratch:

• "Setting a Pattern, c. 1850-1900" -- Chapter 3 of the first draft of my manuscript for Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000). This didn't make it into the final version except in a drastically abbreviated form -- a single reference on p. 85 -- but it was the first thing I wrote about (labor relations in the) stove industry.

• "The Rocky Road to Mass Production: Change and Continuity in the U.S. Foundry Industry, 1890-1940," Enterprise and Society 1 (2000): 391-437.

• "The Spatial Mobility of Ordinary People: A Civil War Era Case," in Cornelis A. Van Minnen and Sylvia L. Hilton, eds., Nation on the Move: Mobility in American History (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2002), pp. 111-28.

• “Between Convergence and Exceptionalism: Americans and the British Model of Labor Relations, c. 1867-1920,” Labor History 48 (2007): 141-73. [Winner, Labor History Best Article prize, 2007] [GSC]