It wasn't quite the WTO in Seattle, but controversy did enliven the forty-sixth annual meeting of the Business History Conference at Palo Alto, California, March 10–12, 2000. Organized around the theme of “Enterprise in Society,” it boasted panels on work, science and technology, banking, social stakeholders and corporations, gender, the environment, and consumption. Participants came from many fields, and the event's interdisciplinarity sparked lively discussions as to whether particular papers even belonged at the conference. One commentator, Youssef Cassis (University of Grenoble, II), for example, asked if studies of working-class bank customers should be included in panels on banking, or whether such papers, however well done, are social or working-class history, and consequently outside the domain of business history? His question sparked a direct response from audience member Pamela Laird (University of Colorado-Denver) who suggested that this was precisely the direction that business history should be heading.