Pre- and Non-Stove Research

[This needs editing -- e.g. to get linked pages to open automatically in new windows. And it includes everything, so there is an overlap with the "Articles and Chapters" page -- items highlighted in a tasteful pink.]

[The more significant (or perhaps less insignificant ) items have their main titles in BOLD, and link to Subpages containing lots of useful and interesting stuff about them.]

  1. The Right to Manage: Industrial Relations Policies of American Business in the 1940s (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982) ix + 296 pp. (Winner, Phillip Taft Award for Labor History, 1983.) [Google Scholar Citations, hereafter GSC]
  2. "The Snares of Liberalism? Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Shaping of Federal Labor Relations Policy, ca.1915-1947", in Tolliday, S. and Zeitlin, J., eds., Shop Floor Bargaining and the State: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (Cambridge: CUP, 1985), pp. 148-191. [PREPRINT]. Reprinted as ‘Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Shaping of Federal Labor Relations Policy’, in E. Boris and N. Lichtenstein eds., Major Problems in the History of American Workers: Documents and Essays (Lexington: D.C. Heath, 1991), pp. 428-49. [GSC]
  3. "Give Us Some Less of That Old-Time Corporate History", discussing Charles W. Cheape, Family Firm to Modern Multinational, and Nannie M. Tilley, The R.J.Reynolds Tobacco Company, in Labor History 28 (1987): 75-83. [Review Article]
  4. "The Master Craftsman", discussing David M. Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor, in Labor History 30 (1989): 93-106. [Review Article]
  5. "Getting It Together: The Metal Manufacturers' Association of Philadelphia, ca. 1900-1930," in Jacoby, S.M., ed., Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Employers (New York: Columbia U.P., 1990), pp. 111-31, 222-4.
  6. "Employers' Collective Action in the Open-Shop Era: the Metal Manufacturers' Association of Philadelphia, ca. 1900-1930," in Tolliday, S. and Zeitlin, J., eds., The Power to Manage? Historical and Comparative Perspectives (London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 117-46.
  7. (Edited with Nelson Lichtenstein), Industrial Democracy: The Ambiguous Promise (New York: Cambridge U.P., 1993), ix + 293 pp., for "Introduction" (with co-editor), pp. 1-19, and "Industrial Democracy and Liberal Capitalism, ca. 1890-1920," pp. 43-66. [GSC for chapter; for collection, here]
  8. "Exceptionally Knights", discussing Voss, The Making of American Exceptionalism, in Reviews in American History 23 (1995): 658-662. [Review Article]
  9. “A Businessman's Crusade," discussing Fine, ‘Without Blare of Trumpets’, Reviews in American History 24 (1996): 102-107. [Review Article]
  10. "Durable Goods: Steelworkers in America After Three Decades", discussing Brody, Steelworkers in America, in Labor History 34 (1993): 479-88. Reprinted in David Brody, Steelworkers in America: The Nonunion Era (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1998), pp. 306-16. [Review Article]
  11. "War in the Social Order: The Great War and the Liberalization of American Quakerism," in David Adams and Cornelius van Minnen, eds., Religious and Secular Reform Movements in American History (Edinburgh, 1999), pp. 179-204. Reprinted with minor changes in Quaker Theology 3:2 (Autumn 2001): 98-131.
  12. "Interwar American Histories: Left, Right, and Wrong," Historical Journal 42 (1999): 293-308. [Review Article]
  13. "Meat and Men," Labor History 40 (1999): 216-9. [Review Article]
  14. Bloodless Victories: the Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940 (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000), xvii + 456 pp. [GSC]
  15. "The Rocky Road to Mass Production: Change and Continuity in the U.S. Foundry Industry, 1890-1940," Enterprise and Society 1 (2000): 391-437.
  16. "The Making of a 'Business Community,' 1880-1930: Definitions and Ingredients of a Collective Identity," in Cornelis A. van Minnen and Sylvia L. Hilton, eds., Federalism, Citizenship, and Collective Identities in U.S. History [European Contributions to American Studies XLVII] (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2000), pp. 123-39.
  17. "Industrial History: The State of the Art," in Melvyn Stokes, ed., The State of U.S. History (Oxford: Berg, 2002), pp. 179-97. [PREPRINT]
  18. "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.
  19. "Industrial Paternalism and Welfare Capitalism: 'Where's the Beef?' - or 'Show Me the Money!'," in Raffaela Baritono et al., eds., Public and Private in American History: State, Family, Subjectivity in the Twentieth Century (Torino: Otto Editore, 2003), pp. 459-82. [PREPRINT] [GSC]
  20. “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] [PREPRINT] [GSC]
  21. “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]
  22. “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]
  23. “'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]
  24. “My Apprenticeship,” in Chad Pearson, Mark Wilson, Kim Phillips Fein, Melvyn Dubofsky, and Howell Harris, “Labor History Symposium: Assessing Howell John Harris, The Right to Manage, after 30 Years,” Labor History 53:1 (Spring 2012): 121-42 at pp. 135-42. [Review Article] [PREPRINT]
  25. "Coping With Competition: Cooperation and Collusion in the US Stove Industry, c. 1870-1930," Business History Review 86:4 (Winter 2012): 657-692.