Business History at the OAH, 2013

The Organization of American Historians (OAH), which will hold its 2013 annual meeting in San Francisco, California, on April 11-14, has now released its program. Two sessions are of particular interest:
Friday, 1:45 p.m.: "The 1%?: Business Classes and the Transformation of American Capitalism"
Sponsored by the Business History Conference’s Liaison Committee

"Global Networks, Metropolitan Terrains: Finance Capital and Urban Populism in the Era of Reconstruction"
Noam Maggor, Vanderbilt University
"A Grasstops Revolution: Local Business Elites, National Executives, and the Geography of Twentieth-Century Capitalism"
Elizabeth Shermer, Loyola University of Chicago
"Corporate Power and the Problem of Politics: Business Elites, Social Policy, and Urban 'Democracy' in the Early Twentieth Century"
Daniel Amsterdam, The Ohio State University

Friday, 3:30 p.m.: Plenary Session: "Corporations in American Life"

Chair: Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University
Richard White, Stanford University
Bethany Moreton, University of Georgia
Karen Ho, University of Minnesota
Peter James Hudson, Vanderbilt University

Other complete sessions of interest include:
Friday, 10:30 a.m.: "The Globalization of African-American Consumer Culture, 1800-Present"
Saturday, 8:30 a.m.: "The Transformation of the American Political Economy during the 1970s"
Saturday, 10:30 a.m.: "Purchasing Power Politics and Consumer Activism in North America
from the Depression to the Cold War"
Saturday, 10:30 a.m.: "The Business of War: Production, Consumption, and Destruction, 1860–2013"

In addition, individual participants with ties to business history include Richard John (Thursday, "Connections and Constraints: Technology and Sociability"); Walter Licht (Friday, "Managing Knowledge, Managing People, Managing Health"); and Susan Strasser (Sunday, "When the World of Goods Goes Bad: Drugs as Intolerable Commodities").

Digital Collection: Princeton Exhibit of Subway Posters

The Princeton University Library has digitized a number of posters from the Interborough Rapid Transit Subway Company . The posters, designed by the public relations firm Ivy Lee, were displayed in subway cars to provide information to riders about changes in fares and routes, safety issues, and other matters of interest. The collection consists of 385 images dating from 1918 to 1932; many of them provide financial information about rates, company dividends, and a general look at an early rapid transit system. October 29, update: Jonathan Rees over at "More or Less Bunk" was moved by this post to go off in search of a better site, and found the massive collection of the London Transport Museum , which displays over 5,000 items in a searchable collection .

The Exchange has moved to the BHC's website

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Wilfried Feldenkirchen (1947-2010)

With sadness we report the death of longtime BHC member Wilfried Feldenkirchen. He died in a car accident on June 21, 2010, while test driving a replica of Siemens' 1905 electric car, the Victoria , a project for which he was the manager. He was professor of economic, social, and business history in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. A former trustee of the BHC and a member of the editorial board of Enterprise & Society , Professor Dr. Feldenkirchen specialized in nineteenth- and twentieth-century corporate and financial history, focusing particularly on Siemens. In addition to numerous articles and essays, his works include: The Banks and the Steel Industry in the Ruhr: Developments in Relations from 1874 to 1914 (1981) Werner von Siemens: Inventor and International Entrepreneur (1994) Siemens, 1918-1945 (1999) Siemens: From Workshop to Global Player (2000) "Vom Guten das Beste": Von Daimler und Be...

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