Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War. By Jim Powell. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii, 231. $130.00, cloth
In: The journal of economic history, Band 81, Heft 2, S. 642-643
ISSN: 1471-6372
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In: The journal of economic history, Band 81, Heft 2, S. 642-643
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: Enterprise & society: the international journal of business history, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 440-442
ISSN: 1467-2235
In: The economic history review, Band 61, Heft 1, S. 245-246
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: Business history, Band 47, Heft 2, S. 159-173
ISSN: 1743-7938
In: Australian economic history review: an Asia-Pacific journal of economic, business & social history, Band 44, Heft 2, S. 161-184
ISSN: 1467-8446
This article examines the misrepresentation of Australasian meat in Britain, 1890–1914. Using contemporary official analyses of this practice, we investigate the alleged economic consequences for Australasian and British farmers and British consumers and discuss evidence of the extent of this misrepresentation. The need to secure 'honest trade' by compulsory marking of imported meat was the principal recommendation of several official enquiries. However, support for the legislative measures proposed to eradicate misrepresentation was far from unanimous. Overall, the evidence suggests that misrepresentation was not as serious in extent or consequence, as some contemporaries feared.
In: Business history, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 52-71
ISSN: 1743-7938
In: The journal of economic history, Band 63, Heft 2
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: Perspectives in economic and social history
"Between Brexit, efforts to 'Make America great again' and ongoing appeals for patriotic consumption to boost economies, the intersection between national identity, marketing campaigns, and consumer choices has been brought to the fore. This book maps out this terrain and provides a framework for how research on 'Made in' campaigns and programmes in individual countries can be placed into a broader historical context. The book argues that the history of 'Made in' can be used to shed light on society at large: the actors that have promoted it, the institutions that have regulated it, and the cultural environments that have attributed it meaning. At times 'Made in' has been a basic, descriptive trademark while, in other periods, it has been a key component of carefully developed commercial brands, and in yet other instances it has been used in attempts to forge and redefine national identities. The book opens with an introduction to the three key factors which have featured prominently in 'Made in' campaigns - commercial logic, national economic policy, and it's use as an instrument in political discourse - and an overview of the evolution of 'Made in' from a marketing perspective. This is followed by country-specific discussions of 'Made in' through case studies including countries in Western Europe, US, Japan and the antipodes. This book will be of significant interest to students and scholars of economic history, business history and marketing"--
In: Business history, S. 1-24
ISSN: 1743-7938
In: Enterprise & society: the international journal of business history, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 286-316
ISSN: 1467-2235
We examine the Scotch Whisky Association's (SWA) role in protecting "Scotch whisky" between c. 1945 and c. 1990. Using new archival evidence, we demonstrate that the SWA intensively lobbied the UK government to achieve coordination between domestic and European regulations governing Scotch whisky and whisky. The SWA's nonmarket activities were consonant with some trade associations but in other respects they were atypical. The SWA extended its activities to supranational bodies and engaged in extensive domestic and foreign litigation. The key message from this article is that the SWA built the world-renowned appellation "Scotch whisky" even though this marque was not registered as an appellation until the late twentieth century.
In: Business history, Band 64, Heft 7, S. 1260-1280
ISSN: 1743-7938
In: Business history, Band 62, Heft 1, S. 70-97
ISSN: 1743-7938
In: Enterprise & society: the international journal of business history, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 591-631
ISSN: 1467-2235
The Manchester Chamber of Commerce established the Manchester Testing House in 1895, and introduced uniform yarn contracting rules in 1897. The chamber made these institutional "innovations" to deal with the nefarious practice of "short-reeling." This case study explains how and why merchants were crucial to undoing weaknesses in domestic —and to some extent foreign—legislation to overcome this fraudulent activity. We argue that the Testing House and uniform contract were tantamount to developing a quasi-legal system such that private standards established through cooperative agreements had legal sanction. Our study shows how institutions evolved to improve governance along the supply chain for this highly specialized export-orientated industry. This article contributes to the growing literature on historical markets, institutions, and standards. Based on extensive archival sources, we show how specific and complementary commercial institutions developed within grounded notions of governance rather than abstracted spaces of market exchange.
In: Business history, Band 58, Heft 5, S. 609-624
ISSN: 1743-7938