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Volume 50 - Issue 1 - Spring 1976

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Technological Change and the Theory of the Firm: The American Locomotive Industry, 1920–1955 *
Thomas G. Marx
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11 June 2012, pp. 1-24
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This study analyzes the differing managerial behavior of the three dominant firms in the steam locomotive oligopoly as diesel locomotives replaced steam.

The National Association of Manufacturers and Public Relations during the New Deal
Richard S. Tedlow
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11 June 2012, pp. 25-45
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The National Association of Manufacturers was influential in establishing public relations as a permanent fixture in American corporate life. The Association took up the use of public relations in the depths of the depression, promoted its use strongly, and increased its stature.

Technological and Managerial Innovation: The Johnson Company, 1883–1898
Michael Massouh
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11 June 2012, pp. 46-68
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The Johnson Company was initially innovative in both a technological and a managerial sense, but its technically-oriented inventor-managers proved unable to provide creative leadership once the enterprise had passed through its early, technologically creative period.

Mountaineer Mine Wars: An Analysis of the West Virginia Mine Wars of 1912–1913 and 1920–1921
Hoyt N. Wheeler
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11 June 2012, pp. 69-91
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Professor Wheeler describes and analyzes the extreme violence that marked labor-management relations in the West Virginia coal fields.

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Causal Explanation and Model Building in History, Economics, and the New Economic History. By Peter D. McClelland. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1975. Pp. 290. $12.50.
Alexander J. Field
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11 June 2012, pp. 96-99
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How It All Began: Origins of the Modern Economy. By W. W. Rostow. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975. Pp. x + 264. $11.50.
Joseph A. Pratt
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11 June 2012, pp. 99-101
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The Development of Japanese Business 1600–1973. By Johannes Hirschmeier and Tsunehiko Yui. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1975. Pp. 340. $12.00.
Kozo Yamamura
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11 June 2012, pp. 101-103
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Der Elitekreislauf in Der Unternehmerschaft: Eine Empirische Untersuchung für den Deutschsprachigen Raum. By Wilhelm Stahl. Frankfurt am Main and Zürich, Deutsch, 1973, pp. xxxvi + 320. DM 29.80.
Jürgen Kocka
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11 June 2012, pp. 103-104
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Die Geschichte der Unternehmerischen Selbstverwaltung in Köln 1797–1914. By Hermann Kellenbenz and Klara van Eyll. Köln, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv zu Köln e.V., 1972. Pp. 271. DM 50.
Jürgen Kocka
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11 June 2012, pp. 104-106
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The Development of the West of Scotland, 1750–1960. By Anthony Slaven. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. Pp. xvi + 272. $20.25.
S. B. Saul
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11 June 2012, pp. 106-107
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Money and Empire: the International Gold Standard, 1890–1914. By Marcello de Cecco. Totowa, New Jersey, Rowan and Littlefield, 1975. Pp. x + 254. $20.00.
Frank W. Fetter
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11 June 2012, pp. 107-109
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The History of British Steel. By John Vaizey. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974. Pp. xvii + 205. £4.25.
Leslie Hannah
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11 June 2012, p. 109
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The Brazilian Coffee Valorization of 1906: Regional Politics and Economic Dependence. By Thomas H. Holloway. Madison, Wisconsin, The Society Press of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1975. Pp. viii + 112. $8.50.
Carlos Manuel Peláez
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11 June 2012, pp. 110-111
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A Nation Unaware: the Canadian Economic Culture. By Herschel Hardin. Vancouver, J. J. Douglas Ltd., 1974. Pp. 378. $10.95.
Richard W. Pollay
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11 June 2012, pp. 112-113
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War and Economic Development: Essays in Memory of David Joslin. J. M. Winter, ed. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. vii + 297. $22.50.
Robert D. Cuff
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11 June 2012, pp. 113-114
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The Municipal Revolution in America: Origins of Modern Urban Government, 1650–1825. By Jon C. Teaford. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1975. Pp. viii + 152. $9.75.
Susan E. Hirsch
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11 June 2012, pp. 115-116
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Financing Anglo-American Trade: The House of Brown, 1800–1880. By Edwin J. Perkins. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1975. Pp. xi + 323. $15.00.
Richard Sylla
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11 June 2012, pp. 116-118
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Men and Wealth in the United States, 1850–1870. By Lee Soltow. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1975. Pp. xx + 206. $12.50.
Stanley L. Engerman
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11 June 2012, pp. 118-119
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Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business. By Harold C. Livesay. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Pp. x + 202. $3.95.
Lawrence L. Murray
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11 June 2012, pp. 119-121
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Research Article

Technological Change and the Theory of the Firm: The American Locomotive Industry, 1920–1955 *

The National Association of Manufacturers and Public Relations during the New Deal

Technological and Managerial Innovation: The Johnson Company, 1883–1898

Mountaineer Mine Wars: An Analysis of the West Virginia Mine Wars of 1912–1913 and 1920–1921

The Editor's Corner

The Editor's Corner

Book Reviews

Causal Explanation and Model Building in History, Economics, and the New Economic History. By Peter D. McClelland. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1975. Pp. 290. $12.50.

How It All Began: Origins of the Modern Economy. By W. W. Rostow. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975. Pp. x + 264. $11.50.

The Development of Japanese Business 1600–1973. By Johannes Hirschmeier and Tsunehiko Yui. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1975. Pp. 340. $12.00.

Der Elitekreislauf in Der Unternehmerschaft: Eine Empirische Untersuchung für den Deutschsprachigen Raum. By Wilhelm Stahl. Frankfurt am Main and Zürich, Deutsch, 1973, pp. xxxvi + 320. DM 29.80.

Die Geschichte der Unternehmerischen Selbstverwaltung in Köln 1797–1914. By Hermann Kellenbenz and Klara van Eyll. Köln, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv zu Köln e.V., 1972. Pp. 271. DM 50.

The Development of the West of Scotland, 1750–1960. By Anthony Slaven. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. Pp. xvi + 272. $20.25.

Money and Empire: the International Gold Standard, 1890–1914. By Marcello de Cecco. Totowa, New Jersey, Rowan and Littlefield, 1975. Pp. x + 254. $20.00.

The History of British Steel. By John Vaizey. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974. Pp. xvii + 205. £4.25.

The Brazilian Coffee Valorization of 1906: Regional Politics and Economic Dependence. By Thomas H. Holloway. Madison, Wisconsin, The Society Press of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1975. Pp. viii + 112. $8.50.

A Nation Unaware: the Canadian Economic Culture. By Herschel Hardin. Vancouver, J. J. Douglas Ltd., 1974. Pp. 378. $10.95.

War and Economic Development: Essays in Memory of David Joslin. J. M. Winter, ed. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. vii + 297. $22.50.

The Municipal Revolution in America: Origins of Modern Urban Government, 1650–1825. By Jon C. Teaford. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1975. Pp. viii + 152. $9.75.

Financing Anglo-American Trade: The House of Brown, 1800–1880. By Edwin J. Perkins. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1975. Pp. xi + 323. $15.00.

Men and Wealth in the United States, 1850–1870. By Lee Soltow. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1975. Pp. xx + 206. $12.50.

Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business. By Harold C. Livesay. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Pp. x + 202. $3.95.

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