The Business of Labor
March 13-15, 2025, at the Crowne Plaza Midtown in Atlanta, Georgia.
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The Business of Labor
March 13-15, 2025, at the Crowne Plaza Midtown in Atlanta, Georgia.
The latest issue in Business History, volume 66, issue 2, 2024, is now out!
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[book review] Bridges, Mary. 2024. “Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870-1919,” Business History 66 (2): 533–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2129683.
Colbourne, Rick, Ana Maria Peredo, and Irene Henriques. 2024. “Indigenous Entrepreneurship? Setting the Record Straight.” Business History 66 (2): 455–77
RESEARCH SEMINAR: BRENT CEBUL
“CREATING THE INTERN: PHILANTHROPY, UNIVERSITIES, AND THE NEW DEAL”
Virtual Event
April 24, 2024
Time 12 PM EST
Registration for this event is via Eventbrite.
Proximity to power, access to professional networks, and acquisition of insider knowledge has come to define the “intangible things” unpaid internships claim to offer students—whether in the public service or in proliferating private internship programs. This paper locates the origins of the modern, private white-collar internship in the growth of the New Deal administrative state and the simultaneous emergence
Dear all,
As we all watch with much sadness the unfolding events in Haiti, we are writing to announce the next session of the Haiti seminar on March 28th 2024.
This session will consist of a book panel on the occasion of the translation in English of Damian Clavel's book Making a Country: the Kingdom of Poyais, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Fraud 1820–1824, which will be published by Stanford University Press.
“We are so back.” I couldn’t have captured the feeling of the 2024 Business History Conference (BHC), which took place last weekend in Providence, RI, any better than Alexi Garrett did on the platform formerly known as Twitter. (Especially if you missed the meeting, stop what you’re doing right now and read Paula de la Cruz-Fernández’s recap of the awards ceremony here, and check out the audio of Sharon Murphy’s presidential address here).
After several years of hybrid and virtual meetings, the BHC enjoyed a second year of returning to primarily in-person meetings in 2024, following up a great
Hello!
After a long hiatus, the Executive Summary is back with another series (dare I say a second season?) of summer interviews with Emerging Scholars, the first of which drops TODAY. In case you missed any of last year's interviews, you can get caught up here:
While we're here, I'd also like to highlight some recent posts in H-Business of note:
A roundup of articles and other materials of interest to scholars of business and economic history.
A roundup of articles and other materials of interest to scholars of business and economic history.
Next week, from Nov. 1-4, the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation is running a four-day webinar series on Robotics and AI. Every day, from 1-2:30 pm Eastern, there is a webinar on a different topic in robotics and AI. (I really like this format!)
So whether you worry about robots taking human jobs, are wondering about the future of automation, or are curious about how all of this gets reported and communicated, there