2025 BHC MEETING PROGRAM

Doctoral Colloquium, 8:30am - 4:00pm

Piedmont & Roswell

François-Valentin Clerc, Université de Genève
Threading Japanese Silk into Global Capitalism: French and American Silk Manufacturers Changing Relationships with Japanese Silk Suppliers, 1859-1913

Chris Abdul Hakim Martinez, University of California, Los Angeles
Contesting the Capitalist World Economy: Bauxite and the Challenge of Guinean Decolonization (1945-1984)

Christian Robles-Baez, Stanford University
The Making of an Improbable Global Market: Coffee 1808-1850

Jeffrey Rubel, New York University    
The Dating Trade: A History of the Dating Industry in America

Felicitas Santurio, Universidad Católica Argentina
Women, Work, and Family. Female Workers at the Bunge and Born Group (1884-1943)

Anne Schaller, Vanderbilt University
Procompetitive Effects of State Antitrust Laws: Evidence from the Progressive Era

Ella Marianne Stensdotter Umea University
The Swedish Employers' Confederation's Interactions with the Anglo-Saxon World, 1950-1990

Sudarat Sukloet, University of York
Foreign Direct Investment and Environmental Impact of Multinational Enterprises

Sally Yi, Princeton University
Capital Citizenship: Japanese Investment, Identity, and Property in Seattle, 1930-2000

Hideki Yoshikawa, Kyoto University
US Healthcare Industry During the AIDS Crisis in the 1980s and 1990s

Workshop 1: Careers in Business History, 12:15pm - 1:30pm

Roswell

Organized by the BHC Dissertation Colloquium and Emerging Scholars Committee

Chair: Eric Godelier, École Polytechnique

Grace Ballor (Bocconi University)
Jennifer Black, (Misericordia University)
Ken Lipartito (University of Florida) 
Benjamin Waterhouse (University of Northern Carolina, Chapel Hill) 
Alexia Yates (European University Institute)

Workshop 2: Elevating Narratives: Enhancing the Visibility of Black Entrepreneurship in Historical Scholarship and Beyond, 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Buckhead

Organized by the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education at Princeton University and the Morehouse Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center

This workshop will focus on raising the profile of Black Entrepreneurship historical research. The point of the workshop is to strategize ways to increase the market for Black Entrepreneurship research but also to build excitement for a field that has so much untapped potential. And there could scarcely be a better place to host this workshop than Atlanta, Georgia, a center of Black business success and Black scholarship for over a century. 

Chair: Keith Hollingsworth, Ph.D. (Morehouse College) 
Ihsan Beezer (Princeton/Rutgers University) 
Leon Prieto, Ph.D. (Clayton State University) 
Tiffany Bussey, DBA (Morehouse College) 

Tour 1: Mid-Century Women in Atlanta, 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Meet at the Corner of Peachtree Street and Ponce de Leon Avenue

[PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED]

Meeting Point: Corner of Peachtree Street and Ponce de Leon Avenue. The tour will last 2 hours.

In the mid-20th century, Midtown Atlanta was home to commercial offices, hotels, apartments, and upscale homes. This tour explores women’s working lives in the neighborhood, from the Black domestic workers who cared for elite families to white middle-class women performing pink-collar work and elite white women pursuing lives beyond their homes. Midtown also became the sight of women’s political activism around labor and working conditions. As we explore Midtown, we will share stories of women’s working lives and the impact their work and politics have on our world today.

The tour is organized by History Afoot Atlanta.  Founded by graduates of Georgia State University’s Master of Heritage Preservation (M.H.P.) program Lisa Flaherty and Amy Durrell, History Afoot Atlanta offers engaging and accurate walking tours that expand the narrative of Atlanta’s stories. In our small groups, we engage in conversation about the people who lived in and shaped Atlanta. Our tours focus on social history, exploring the lives and experiences of a wide range of individuals.

Workshop 3: Harvard Business School Workshop, 1:00pm - 4:45pm

Peachtree

1:00: Opening Remarks:  Grace Ballor

1:05-2:20: Globalization, Multinationals, and Institutions
1. Teresa da Silva Lopes – Deglobalization, Trade Wars, and the Recoupling of International Supply Chains: The Norwegian-Portuguese Trade War 1921–1923
2. Sudev Sheth – Beyond Western Modernity: Civil Society, Business History, and the City
3. Marcelo Bucheli, State Interventionism as Promoter of Globalization
4. Laura Philips Sawyer – Power Move: How Law and Public Policy Reshaped the Late-Twentieth-Century U.S. Firm
5. Yuan Jia Zheng – The Rise of China’s Automobile Industry Since 1953: Multinationals, Technology Transfer, and Electric Vehicles

2:20-2:30: Coffee Break

2:30-3:15: Environment, Climate, and Nature
6. Christopher McKenna – A Short History of Greenwashing
7. Ann-Kristin Bergquist – Renewing Business History in the Era of the Anthropocene
8. Espen Storli – Business History and Natural Resources

3:15-3:30:  Break 

3:30-4:45: Entrepreneurs
9. Anna Spadavecchia – Inventors and the International Diffusion of Technological Knowledge: Britain and the United States in the Interwar Period
10. Rolv Petter Amdam – The Internationalization Entrepreneur Who Makes Things Happen
11. Dan Wadhwani – Schumpeter's Plea Revisited
12. Andrea Lluch – Capitalism and Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Agendas and Challenges from a Business History Perspective
13. Patrick Fridenson -- Architecture, Design, Art as Components of Business History

4:45: Closing Remarks: Ai Hisano

Workshop 4: Book Proposal Workshop, 1:00pm - 6:00pm

Lenox

Organized by the Emerging Scholar Committee

Coffee Break, 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Georgia Ballroom Pre-Function

Workshop 5: Publishing in Business History, 1:45pm - 3:00pm

Roswell

Organized by the BHC Dissertation Colloquium and Emerging Scholars Committee  

Chair: Eric Godelier, École Polytechnique

Paula de la Cruz Fernandez, Digital Editor of the BHC

Walter Friedman, Harvard Business School (Business History Review)

R. Daniel Wadhwani, University of Southern California (Management & Organizational History)

Shane Hamilton, University of York (Enterprise and Society)

Sean Raming, University of Notre Dame (Modern American History) 

Registration, 2:00pm - 6:00pm

2nd floor

Tour 2: The Old Fourth Ward, 2:30pm - 4:30pm

Meet at the Corner of Auburn Avenue and Jackson Street

[PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED]

Meeting Point: Corner of Auburn Avenue and Jackson Street at 2:30 pm. Or, meet at the hotel at 2 PM and travel together to the meeting point. The tour will last 2 hours.

Walk Auburn Avenue to explore the long history of Black Atlantans seeking jobs, new lives, and civil rights. The tour begins at Ebenezer Baptist Church and passes through the residential area of this historic neighborhood, sharing stories of those who lived and worked here. The tour ends at the Beltline, one of Atlanta’s most popular destinations. The tour is organized by History Afoot Atlanta.  Founded by graduates of Georgia State University’s Master of Heritage Preservation (M.H.P.) program Lisa Flaherty and Amy Durrell, History Afoot Atlanta offers engaging and accurate walking tours that expand the narrative of Atlanta’s stories. In our small groups we engage in conversation about the people who lived in and shaped Atlanta. Our tours focus on social history, exploring the lives and experiences of a wide range of individuals. 

Trustee Meeting, 3:30pm - 6:00pm

Sky Salon

Opening Plenary, 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Georgia Ballroom East

Essential & Disposable: Histories of Migrant Labor in the US South

Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia  
Cindy Hahamovitch, University of Georgia  
Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez, Emory University  
Murtaza Khwaja, Advancing Justice Atlanta  

Opening Reception, 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Sky East

Breakfast, 7:00am - 8:30am

Georgia Ballroom Pre-Function

Registration, 7:00am - 5:00pm

2nd floor

Concurrent Sessions 1, 8:00am - 9:30am

Session a: Architects of Business and the Labor of Architecture
Sky Salon
Chair: Aaron Cayer, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Discussant: Michael Kubo, Rhode Island School of Design
Chelsea Spencer, Rice University
"Bargains, Boilerplate, and the Making of the US Building Industry"
Aaron Tobey, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
"Designing Reengineering: Integrated Transformations of US Architects’ Offices, Office Buildings, and Corporations in the 1980s"
Shota Vashakmadze, University of California, Los Angeles
"The 'Implicit Enumeration' Algorithm: Decision Science and the Architectural Research Economy"
Session b: Bitter Harvests: Political Economy in the Interwar Agrarian Periphery
Lenox
Chair: Ashton Merck, Independent Scholar
Discussant: Shane Hamilton, University of York
Siddharth Sridhar, University of Toronto
"Managing Labor Unrest in Britain’s Planter-Empire"
Abram Smith, Duke University
"Making the Grades: Cotton Standardization Policies in the US and Egypt, 1914-1939"
Robert Ferguson, University of Georgia, and Nathanael Mickelson, University of Georgia
"The Cotton Divide: Haute Finance and the Farm Bloc, 1920-1929"
Session c: The Cold War at Work: The Relationship Between National Defense and Labor Planning in the United States, 1940-1990
Peachtree
Chair: Alex Sayf Cummings, Georgia State University
Discussant: Alex Sayf Cummings, Georgia State University
Joseph Johnson, Temple University
"Farewell to Arms: Resisting Tech Industries and the Military-Industrial Complex in the Santa Clara Valley, 1980-1990"
Jake Wolff, Temple University
"Freeways for Free Enterprise and the Failure to Make Small Business Work in the Cold War West, 1940-1965"
Sean Raming, University of Notre Dame
"A Ghost at the Bargaining Table: Labor Unions and Defense Production in the 1960s"
Session d: Eroding the Boundaries: Managing Social Enterprise and the Emergence of the Entrepreneur in Higher Education
Buckhead
Chair: Stephen Adams, Salisbury University
Discussant: Erik Lakomaa, Stockholm School of Economics
John Branch, Northwestern University
"Peter Drucker, Frances Hesselbein and the “Discovery” of Nonprofit Management"
Eric John Abrahamson, Vantage Point History / Johns Hopkins University
"From Lab Rats to Entrepreneurs: Science, Philanthropy, and the Entrepreneurial University, 1980-2024"
Stephen Adams, Salisbury University
"Slow Rise of the Phoenix: Delayed by Higher Education’s Entry Barrier "
Session e: Geographies of Information Technology From Telegraphs to Computer Networks
Atlanta Ballroom C&D
Chair: Josh Lauer, University of New Hampshire
Discussant: Josh Lauer, University of New Hampshire
Devin Kennedy, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Wired for Profit: Computer Infrastructure and the Financial Vision of the Firm, 1950-1970"
Sophie FitzMaurice, University of Cambridge
"Infrastructure, Pole Yards, and Hidden Labor within the Telegraph System, 1880s–1930s"
Marc Aidinoff, Institute for Advanced Study
"The Big Blue Welfare State: Technological Federalism in the Post-New Deal United States"
Session f: Forced Labor in Germany
Roswell
Chair: Daniel Raff, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: The Audience
Hartmut Berghoff, Göttingen University
"The Twisted Road to a Research Project. Forced Labor at Bahlsen, Shitstorms and the Unexpected Opening of the Archives"
Christoph Nitschke, University of Stuttgart
"Dual-use Discount: What we can learn from yet another Nazi Germany company history?"
Andrea Schneider-Braunberger, Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte
"The Use of Forced Laborers and Its Decades-Long Consequences in Family Firms"
Session g: Green Policies, Sustainability, and the Automobile Industry
Georgia Ballroom East
Chair: Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School
Discussant: Mark H. Rose, Florida Atlantic University
Yuan Jia Zheng, Harvard Business School
"Creating China’s Leadership in the Energy Transition of the Automobile Industry: Industrial Policies and Sustainable Regulations"
Mattias Näsman, Umeå University, and Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Uppsala University
"The Problem with Speed and Scale in Green Industrial Transitions. A Historical Perspective"
Valentina Fava, Ca' Foscari University
"What Did It Take to Be a Responsible Business for a European Automotive Corporation in the 1970s and 1980s? Fiat Group’s Responses to the Emergence of the 'Environmental Issue"
Session h: New Directions in US Labor History
Atlanta Ballroom A
Chair: Chad Pearson, University of North Texas
Discussant: The Audience
Mark Lause, University of Cincinnati
Keri Leigh Merritt, Independent Scholar
Matthew Hild, Georgia Institute of Technology
Session i: Multinational Enterprises and the Politics of Labor in the Twentieth Century: Panel 1
Atlanta Ballroom B
Chair: Grace Ballor, Bocconi University
Discussant: Justene Hill Edwards, University of Virginia
Sabine Pitteloud, UniDistance Suisse
"Multinationals and Varieties of Capitalism: When U.S. Giants Stepped into the Swiss Coordinated Labor Market in the 1950s"
Melanie Sheehan, Kenyon College
"Facing a Globalizing Industry: US Apparel Unions in the Long 1960s"
Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl, University of Lausanne
"U.S.-Based Multinationals, the International Organisation of Employers, and the Campaign in the 1980s to Limit Global Labor Rights"

Coffee Break, 9:30am - 9:50am

Georgia Ballroom Pre-Function

Concurrent Sessions 2, 9:50am - 11:40am

Session a: Insurance Archives: An Untapped Source for Business Historians
Sky Salon
Chair: Sharon Murphy, Providence College
Niels Haueter, Swiss Re / University of York
Rodney Smith, University of Georgia
Eryn Campbell, National Association of Insurance Commissioners
Rob Hoyt, University of Georgia
Session b: Boundary Maintenance in U. S. Business, 1830-1980
Peachtree
Chair: Benjamin Waterhouse, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Discussant: Christopher McKenna, Oxford University
Stuart Anderson-Davis, Columbia University
""Erroneous Statements and False Representations" – Frauds, Fronts, and Deceptions in Early Corporate America"
Richard John, Columbia University
"The Folklore of Free Enterprise: Thurman Arnold's New Deal"
Laura Phillips-Sawyer, University of Georgia
"Power Move: How Law and Public Policy Reshaped the Late-Twentieth-Century U. S. Firms"
Reinhold Martin, Columbia University
"Oil Horizons: Monopoly Capital in the Texas “Petroleum Complex,” 1900-1940"
Session c: Entrepreneurship as Resistance: Black Agency and Economic Self-Determination in Segregated America
Buckhead
Chair: Keith Hollingsworth, Morehouse College
Discussant: Ihsan Beezer, Rutgers University
Nicholas Gaffney, US Naval Academy
"Fighting for Control of the Jazz Supply Chain: Max Roach, Charlie Mingus and Debut Records"
Heather Butina-Sutton, University of Houston
"Agents of Survival and Resistance: The Entrepreneurial Impact of African American Female Street Vendors in 19th-Century Charleston"
Carolyn Davis, Morehouse College
"Values and Perceptions: An Entrepreneur’s Nearly Forgotten Purchase and Sale of America’s First Black-Owned Radio Station"
Keith Hollingsworth, Morehouse College
"Resilience and Independence: The Story of Mattie Adams and Atlanta’s Early 20th-Century Black Business Community"
Session d: Finance, Famine, and Foreign Investment in Postcolonial Africa
Roswell
Chair: Mattie Webb, Yale University
Discussant: Alice Wiemers, Davidson College
Ewan Harrison, University of Manchester
" “The Monte Carlo of West Africa:” Tourist Investment and Economic Imaginaries in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone "
Bianca Murillo, California State University, Dominguez Hills
"Nkrumah & the Investors: Selling the State, Decolonizing Ghana"
Tracy Mensah, Western Carolina University
"Rawlings’ Chain: Famine and the long 1983 in Ghana"
Muey Saeteurn, University of California, Merced
"Weathering Independence: Hail Suppression, Economic Influence, and the Persistence of Multinational Power in Post-Colonial Kenya"
Session e: Forging Laboring Identities in the Atlantic World
Georgia Ballroom East
Chair: Seth Rockman, Brown University
Discussant: Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, University of California, Davis
Hannah Knox Tucker, Copenhagen Business School
"Salty Masculinity in the British Atlantic"
Emily Whitted, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"“A Sewing Bee on Deck”: Sailors’ Needlework Labor in the Maritime Atlantic World "
Alison Russell, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"“Charles Porter Phelps, Citizen of the United States”: Constructing Identity in the Transatlantic Trade"
Matthew Mitchell, Sewanee: The University of the South
"James Phipps of the Royal African Company: A Renter, not a Victim, of the Slave Trade"
Session f: International Business Elites and the Making of Public Policy
Lenox
Chair: Patrick Fridenson, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Discussant: Knut Sogner, BI Norwegian Business School
Ian Kumekawa, Harvard University
"Expansion and Protection: Interwar British Business Elites and the Empire"
Ajay Mehrotra, Northwestern University / American Bar Foundation
"American Business Leaders and the Making of Tax Policy: Elites, Crises, and the Ambivalent Approach to Fiscal Citizenship"
Joanna Grisinger, Northwestern University
"Chasing the Youth Travel Market: Airline Executives and the Civil Aeronautics Board"
Michael Aldous, Queen's University Belfast
"Do CEOs matter in the long run? British CEOs in the twentieth century"
Session g: Construction, Collaboration and Collectiveness: The Business of Labor and Public-Private Partnerships in Modern Business History
Atlanta Ballroom C&D
Chair: Anne McCants, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discussant: Anne McCants, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeremy Land, University of Helsinki
"Private Enterprise, Public Benefits: Colonial American Road Building and Global Markets"
Mark Crowley, University of Utah
"Voluntary organizations and government partnership – the perfect combination? The British government and the China Campaign Committee, 1937-1945"
Jari Eloranta, University of Helsinki, and Pasi Nevalainen, University of Helsinki
"Public-private partnerships: Interdisciplinary challenges for business history"
Andrew McGee, Smithsonian Institution
"High Technology Aerospace Entrepreneur Versus the Expert Labor of the Federal Workforce: Roy Ash and Nixon-era Conglomerate Approaches to Federal Government Reorganization"
Session h: Multinational Enterprises and the Politics of Labor in the Twentieth Century: Panel 2
Atlanta Ballroom B
Chair: Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl, University of Lausanne
Discussant: The Audience
Pierre Eichenberger, University of Lausanne
"Confronting Labor on the International Stage: the International Organization of Industrial Employers and the International Chamber of Commerce, 1920-1946"
Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
"Multinational Corporations’ Dictatorships, and Labor Unionism"
Grace Ballor, Bocconi University
"Multinationals and Labor in the Single European Market"
Session i: Oral Business History: Recent Approaches
Atlanta Ballroom A
Chair: Paula de la Cruz-Fernández, University of Florida
Discussant: The Audience
Gabriela Recio, Business History Group
Olivia Paschal, Corcoran Department of History
Sean Patrick Adams, University of Florida
Benjamin Spohn, Hagley Museum
Jeffrey Yost, University of Minnesota
Majda Soumane, Africa Business School
Laurent Beduneau-Wang, Africa Business School
Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School

Business Historians in Business School Lunch, 11:40am - 1:10pm

Georgia Ballroom West

Concurrent Sessions 3, 1:10pm - 3:00pm

Session a: Slavery, Labor, and Expertise in the Anglo-Atlantic World
Georgia Ballroom East
Chair: Caitlin Rosenthal, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Joshua Rothman, University of Alabama
Zachary Dorner, University of Maryland
"Thinking about Women’s Knowledge with Night Nurses and Fish Guts"
Aaron Hall, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
"Resource and Regulation: Enslaved Expertise in the Everyday Law of Slavery"
Ann Daly, University of South Florida, Tampa
"The Kings: How Freedom Became Coercion for the Family that Built the American South’s Bridges "
Joshua Morrison, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
"The Cost of Doing Business? Americans Reckon with East Africa Slavery"
Session b: The “Work” of Deception: Fraud, Virtue, and Protection in Twentieth Century Capitalism
Lenox
Chair: Edward Balleisen, Duke University
Discussant: The Audience
Jennifer Black, Misericordia University
"Laboring for “Truth”: American Advertising and Self-Regulation in the Progressive Years"
Cynthia Meyers, University of Mount St. Vincent
" “Razzmatazz Is Okay, But Hocus-Pocus Is OUT!”: The Advertising Industry and Deceptive Television Commercials, 1959-62"
Richard Popp, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
"Viewer Beware: TV Repair Fraud, Technological Complexity, and Consumer Vulnerability"
Christopher McKenna, University of Oxford
"“Whistle While You Work” The Rise of Labor Protections for Exposing Corporate Misconduct"
Session c: Trade and Transfer Between China and the Second World During the Cold War: An Enterprise Perspective
Peachtree
Chair: Timothy Yang, University of Georgia
Discussant: Timothy Yang, University of Georgia
Valeria Zanier, University of Bologna
"Debating Iron and Steel Provisions to China under the Embargo"
Koji Hirata, Monash University
"Feeding China after the Great Leap Famine: Australian and Canadian Businesses and the Restoration of the PRC’s Grain System"
Tao Chen, Tongji University
"Foreign Technicians, Local Protests, and Industrial Progress: Building Rolling Mills in Wuhan Steel Factory (1972-1980)"
Bohao Wu, Peking University
"Provincializing Global Oil Shocks: Japanese Initiatives in the Internationalization of China’s Energy Industries, 1972-1985"
Session d: Trust and Antitrust: Standard Oil and the Creation of the Global Economy
Buckhead
Chair: Laura Phillips-Sawyer, University of Georgia
Discussant: Dan Du, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
James Hudson, University of North Carolina, Pembroke
"Storing and Shipping Containers of Refined Petroleum to China, 1925-1937"
Murat Iplikci, Columbia University
"Elites, Geopolitics, and Business: Mobil Oil in the Turkish Market from the Late 1950s to the Early 1960s"
Minseok Jang, University at Albany, SUNY
""Flashpoint Scandal": Kerosene, Standard Oil, and Free Trade in Britain, 1862-1906"
Pål Thonstad Sandvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Espen Storli, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
"Monopoly Power and Economic Independence: Standard Oil in Iceland, 1890-1930 "
Session e: Global Currency, Monetary Policy, and Economic Development
Atlanta Ballroom C&D
Chair: Peter Vale, Harvard University
Discussant: John Handel, Baylor University
Peter Vale, Harvard University
"Revaluing Congo: Monetary Reform, Liberalization, and Development in 1967"
Chris Martinez, University of California, Los Angeles
"Monetary Sovereignty in One Country? The Guinean Franc and the Challenges of Global Finance"
Manuel Alejandro Bautista-González, University of Oxford
"Correspondent Banking Networks in Mexico from the First Economic Globalization through the Latin American Debt Crisis"
Hadar Hoter-ishay, University of Vienna
"The Barings in Mexico: Sovereign Lending and International Trade through the Mexican 'Era of Chaos,' 1825-1861"
Session f: Labor Conflict, Labor Agency
Atlanta Ballroom B
Chair: Pamela Laird, University of Colorado, Denver
Discussant: Benjamin Waterhouse, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Jacob Bruggeman, Johns Hopkins University
"How to Hire a Hacker: Dealing with Dangerous Experts and Distributed Risks in the Dot-Com Decade"
Florencia Costantini, Universidad Nacional del Sur
"Business Strategies in Response to Labor Market Crises: The Sociedad Protectora del Trabajo Libre in 1930s Argentina"
Michael Hillard, University of Southern Maine
"The Long History of American Business’s Exceptional Hostility to Worker Agency"
Camilo Ernesto Serrano Corredor, Universidad Icesi, and Julio Cesar Zuluaga, Universidad Icesi
"Labor Strategic Positioning in Banana Fields: A Comparison of Two Strikes against the United Fruit Company in Colombia "
Session g: Consumers and the Illusion of Choice
Roswell
Chair: Vicki Howard, University of Essex
Discussant: Vicki Howard, University of Essex
Eli Cook, University of Haifa
"From Supermarket Shelves to Online Menus: The Political Economy of Slotting Fees "
Pablo Federico Pryluka, Harvard University
"The Conquest of New Markets: Development, Income, and Domestic Refrigerators in Postwar South America"
Patrick Patterson, University of California, San Diego
"The Shift toward a Culture of Choice and the Erasure of Employment in Communist Eastern Europe: How Enterprise Leaders and Managers Ended Up Downplaying Labor as They Promoted Consumption "
Session h: Building and Financing Colonial Infrastructure
Sky Salon
Chair: Ai Hisano, University of Tokyo
Discussant: Arwen Mohun, University of Delaware
Lukas Rosenberg, Georg August University of Göttingen
"„[…] for a Railway may be as a little kingdom.“ Labor Hierarchies and Governing the Great Indian Peninsula Railway in the 19th Century"
Christian Robles-Baez, Stanford University
"Paving the Way for the Coffee Boom: Pre-Railway Transport Developments in Early Nineteenth Century Brazil"
Mary Shi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"“Until Indian title shall be… fairly extinguished:” The Public Lands, Indigenous Erasure and the Origins of Government Promotion of Infrastructure in the United States"
David Shorten, Harvard Business School
"Baby Octopuses: Sovereign Debt Monopolies in the Circum-Caribbean, 1890-1910"
Session i: Case Studies of Labor in Hollywood
Atlanta Ballroom A
Chair: Jennifer Porst, Emory University
Discussant: The Audience
Kate Fortmueller, Georgia State University
"Hollywood Unions and the Dual Strikes"
Pete Johnson, University of Texas, Austin
"Between Capital and Labor? Historicizing the Television Producer"
Shawna Kidman, University of California, San Diego
"Shifting Discourses of Authorship & Above-the-Line Labor in Hollywood"
Alisa Perren, University of Texas, Austin, and Hannah Wold, Moody College of Communication
"The Labor of Lobbying for Hollywood’s Place in Texas"
Jennifer Porst, Emory University
"The Impact of Antitrust Enforcement on Labor in Hollywood in the Mid-Twentieth Century"

Coffee Break, 3:00pm - 3:20pm

Georgia Ballroom Pre-Function

Concurrent Sessions 4, 3:20pm - 5:10pm

Session a: Roundtable: Oral History and the Business History of Emerging Markets
Georgia Ballroom East
Chair: Yuan Jia Zheng, Harvard Business School
Discussant: The Audience
Sudev Sheth, Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania
Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School
Andrea Lluch, CONICET / Universidad de los Andes
Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois
Valeria Giacomin, Bocconi University
Session b: Surveillance at Work: Management, Labor, and the Rationalization of Corporate Control
Lenox
Chair: Mols Sauter, University of Maryland
Discussant: Mols Sauter, University of Maryland
Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University
"The Chandlerian Panopticon: Surveilling Workers and Managers in American Railroads, 1850-1890"
Karen Mahar, Siena College
"One of Us: Using “Executive Personality” to Surveil Managers in the United States, 1900-1950"
Josh Lauer, University of New Hampshire
"Disciplining Telephone Users: Telephone Talk and the Instrumentalization of Personal Communication in the United States, 1880-1920"
Bianca Centrone, Princeton University
"Watching Workers Lives: Company Housing at Baťa and Olivetti, 1920-1960"
Session c: The Business and Labor of “Quality” in the Twentieth Century
Peachtree
Chair: Bartow J. Elmore, The Ohio State University
Discussant: Ashton Merck, Independent Scholar
Jiemin Tina Wei, Harvard University
"Producing Quality Work: Scientific Management’s Struggle to Create a Working Life of Efficiency and Satisfaction"
Richard Bachmann, University of Michigan
"Quality on the Line: Adjusting Man to Machines at General Motors, 1949-59 "
Warren Dennis, Boston University
"The Effluent Society: Qualitative Liberalism and the Shaping of the Clean Air Act"
Julia Marino, The Ohio State University
"Quality as a Panacea: The UAW, the Big Three, and the Model of Japanese Products in the 1980s"
Session d: Workers, Wives, and One-ways: Expanding the Boundaries of American Brewing History
Buckhead
Chair: Lisa Jacobson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Discussant: Lisa Jacobson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert Kaminski, University of Florida
"The Business of Brewing Labor: Labor-Relations Strategies in Milwaukee and New York Breweries, 1885-1891"
Tiah Edmunson-Morton, Oregon State University
"You’ve Probably Heard of Her Husband: Gender, Beer, and Archiving"
Cody Patton, Montana State University, Billings
"Selling Single Use: The Begrudging Acceptance and Environmental Consequences of Canned Beer in American Consumer Culture"
Session e: Credit, Savings, and Capital Markets in the United States
Atlanta Ballroom C&D
Chair: Eric Hilt, Wellesley College
Discussant: Eric Hilt, Wellesley College
Ayelet Carmeli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The Development of Mass Savings in the U.S. and France"
Amanda Mushal, The Citadel
"“Allow Me to Suggest that your Inquiry Is a Funk”: Merchants Shaping Early R.G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports from the Bottom Up"
Nicole Adrian, University of Pennsylvania
"Harvesting Credit: U.S. Farmers and Farm Credit Administration Mortgage Policy, 1916–1937"
Noah MacDonald, Emory University
"Insider Trading and Market Efficiency before the SEC: Evidence from the Teapot Dome Scandal"
Session f: Law and Corporations
Roswell
Chair: Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University
Discussant: Leslie Hannah, London School of Economics
Knut Sogner, BI Norwegian Business School
"Constructing Corporatism? The Academic Legal establishment’s Influence on the Nordic Model, 1890-1915"
Dael Norwood, University of Delaware
"Corporations are Voters, My Friends: The Origins & Practice of Enfranchising Businesses in Delaware"
Claire Wrigley, University of Virginia
"The Law of the Land: European Empires and the Rise of the Modern Multinational"
Thomas Buckley, University of Sussex, and Chay Brooks, University of Bristol
"Philanthropy and Hybrid Organisations: Capital, the Market and Solutions to Social Problems"
Session g: Not in My Backyard: A Book Roundtable
Atlanta Ballroom A
Chair: Louis Hyman, The Johns Hopkins University
Discussant: The Audience
Paige Glotzer, University of Florida
Brian Balogh, University of Virginia / Cleveland State University
Thomas Sugrue, New York University
Bryant Simon, Temple University
Session h: Patents and Innovation
Sky Salon
Chair: Jennifer Black, Misericordia University
Discussant: Anna Spadavecchia, University of Strathclyde
Shigehiro Nishimura, Kobe University
"Corporate Patents and Technology Transactions in Japan Before WWII: How did organizations facilitate the technology market?"
Jørgen Burchardt, Middelfart Museum
"The Work of Standardization and Patents in the Digital Era: A Comparative Study of Growth and Transformation"
Natalya Vinokurova, Lehigh University
"The Report of Corporate Research Labs’ Death Was an Exaggeration"
Fredrik Tell, Uppsala University
"Innovation undecided? Laboring patent litigation in Sweden, 1885-1925"
Session i: The Business of Work; The Work of Business
Atlanta Ballroom B
Bringing together the Business History and Labor and Working Class History Association Conferences
Chair: Elizabeth Shermer, Loyola University Chicago
Emily Twarog, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Scott Nelson, University of Georgia
Shennette Garrett-Scott, Tulane University
Matt Garcia, Dartmouth College

Krooss Dissertation Prize Plenary Session, 5:30pm - 7:00pm

Georgia Ballroom East

Chair: Rachel Gross, University of Colorado, Denver

Pablo Pryluka, Harvard University 
"Developing Consumers: A History of Wants and Needs in Postwar South America"

Mattie Webb, Yale University
"Diplomacy at Work: The South African Worker, U.S. Multinationals, and Transnational Racial Solidarity (1972-1987)"

Joshua Lappen, University of Notre Dame
"Electrification, Politics, and Visibility in Greater Los Angeles"

Reception, 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Bank of America Tower

After the reception, the program committee invites you to chat and socialize at the Crowne Royal NEXT bar in the hotel's main lobby.

Breakfast, 7:00am - 8:30am

Georgia Ballroom Pre-Function

Registration, 7:00am - 10:00am

2nd floor

Concurrent Sessions 5, 8:00am - 9:50am

Session a: Remaking the Corporation
Roswell
Chair: Rowena Olegario, University of Oxford
Discussant: Rowena Olegario, University of Oxford
Shaun Yajima, University of Tokyo / Freiberg University of Mining and Technology
"Exposing the Energy Behemoth: The Coal Syndicate and the Politics of Cartel Disclosure in Germany, 1890-1914"
Nicole Sackley, University of Richmond
"David and Goliath: Oil Politics, the International Cooperative Movement, and the Fight against Monopoly Capitalism, 1945-1951"
Mircea Raianu, University of Maryland
"The Corporation as Commonwealth: Scott Bader and Gandhian Trusteeship between India and Britain"
David Smith, Wilfrid Laurier University
"Spirituality, CSR and Reimagining the Mid-Century American Corporation: The History of the Federal Council of Churches and the Origins of The Social Responsibilities of the Businessman"
Session b: Risk and Regulation
Sky Salon
Chair: Albert Churella, Kennesaw State University
Discussant: Espen Storli, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Adam Hefetz, Arizona State University
"Zionism, Imperialism and the Regulation of Banking in Mandate Palestine"
Alan Loeb, Alan P. Loeb and Associates
"The Thing That Everyone Gets Wrong About the Leaded Gasoline Story Is the Story"
Elisabeth Asher, University of Maryland, College Park
"Radioactive Waste and Its Keepers: Managing the West Valley Demonstration Project"
Session c: Banking and Finance in the Turn of the Century United States
Peachtree
Chair: David Thomson, Sacred Heart University
Discussant: Sharon Murphy, Providence College
Thomas DeBerge, Loyola University Chicago
"Insuring Workers in a Time of War and Influenza: The Emergence of Group Life Insurance in the United States"
Atiba Pertilla, German Historical Institute
"Competitive Charity: Savings Banks and Civil Society in Post-Civil War Baltimore, 1865–1900"
Christy Chapin, University of Maryland, Baltimore
"American Country Banks: Fragility, Risky Lending, & Creative Marketing, 1870s-1920s"
Ethan Dunn, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
"Banking on the Future: The Making of the American Bankers’ Association, 1873-1913"
Session d: Automation
Atlanta Ballroom B
Chair: David Kirsch, University of Maryland
Discussant: Ellan Spero, MIT
Adam Mestyan, Duke University
"Automatization and the Value of Skill - Wages in A Sugar Factory in 19th-Century Egypt"
Michele Santoro, German Historical Institute, Rome
"Running by Machines? Automation, Labour Dynamics, and Institutional Reform at the National Institute of Social Insurance (INPS), 1948-1971"
Alex Reiss-Sorokin, Princeton University/ Institute for Advanced Study
"The Computer in the Law Firm: the Early Automation of Legal Research Work, 1964-1970"
Maximillian Clee, Boston University
"The Hydraulic Squeeze: Worker Safety, Automation, and the Compacting Refuse Truck in Memphis and New York’s 1968 Sanitation Strikes"
Session e: Varieties of Big Business
Atlanta Ballroom C&D
Chair: JoAnne Yates, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discussant: Walter Licht, University of Pennsylvania
Han Zhang, University of Cambridge
"Pharmaceutical Nationalism: The Pharmaceutical Industry in Wartime Japan, 1937-1945"
Leslie Hannah, London School of Economics
"Enhancing the 1907 UK Census of Production for International Plant Size and Labor Productivity Comparisons. "
Daniel Rowe, University of Oxford
"The US and the Tech Race of the 1980s and 1990s"
Daniel Raff, Wharton Business School
"The Facts of The Visible Hand Reconsidered, Lamoreaux, Raff, and Temin (AHR 2003) also"
Session f: Education and Management
Buckhead
Chair: Daniel Wadhwani, University of Southern California
Discussant: Daniel Wadhwani, University of Southern California
Eric Godelier, École Polytechnique
"How to become an Engineer in France ? A small Historical study of the origins of the French engineering degree: Governance, scientific and technical legitimacy or identity?"
Seongmi Kim, Chungbuk National University, and Seongmin Jeon, Gachon University, and Minoru Shimamoto, Hitotsubashi University
"Comparative Study on the Business Model Formation Patterns of Korean and Japanese IT Companies"
Jairo Campuzano-Hoyos, Universidad EAFIT
"Family Business and Private Education: Continuity Lines in Four Educational Institutions for Basic, Technical, and Business Training in Colombia, 1911-1960"
Jean-Philip Mathieu, McGill University / University of Ottawa
"Stelco at War: Scientific Management and Canadian Munitions Production in the Great War"
Session g: Roundtable on Applied History: Bringing Business History to Policy
Georgia Ballroom East
Chair: Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University
Discussant: The Audience
Edward Balleisen, Duke University
Patryk Babiracki, University of Texas, Arlington
Laura Phillips-Sawyer, University of Georgia
Lee Vinsel, Virginia Tech
Xaq Frohlich, Auburn University
Arthur Daemmrich, Arizona State University
Michael Wahlen, Boston Consulting Group
Session h: Behind the Volume: A Roundtable on the Work Behind the Hagley Perspectives Series
Atlanta Ballroom A
Chair: Roger Horowitz, Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library
Discussant: The Audience
Hartmut Berghoff, Institut für Wirtschafts und Sozialgeschichte / George August Universität Göttingen
Lisa Jacobson, University of California Santa Barbara
Richard John, Columbia University
Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University
Josh Lauer, University of New Hampshire
Richard Popp, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Wendy Woloson, Rutgers University, Camden
Roger Horowitz, Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library
Session i: Modern Multinationals
Lenox
Chair: Christopher McKenna, Oxford University
Discussant: Mark Wilson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Valeria Giacomin, Bocconi University, and Marina Nicoli, Bocconi University
"An Un-American Story: Mattel’s entrepreneurial intimidation in the global toy industry (1950s-1960s)"
Alison Hearne, South East Technological University
"Institutional Readiness in Post War Northern Ireland – US Multinationals and the Capital/Labor Ratio after World War Two"
Riyoko Shibe, University of Glasgow
"A Business History Of The Petrochemical Industry: BP Chemicals In Grangemouth, Scotland, Since 1950"
Paul Duguid, University of California, Berkeley, and Teresa da Silva Lopes, University of York
"Multinationals and Whitewashing: An Historical Perspective"
Session j: Pensions, Organized Labor, and Financialization in Postwar US
Georgia Ballroom West
Chair: Jennifer Klein, Yale University
Discussant: Jennifer Klein, Yale University
Natalia Shevin, New York University
"'We Want the Chase Manhattan': Control and Responsibility in the Management of the ILGWU’s First Retirement Fund"
Sean Vanatta, University of Glasgow
"“The Ascent of the Prudent Man: Trusteeship and the Legal Origins of Financialization”"
Jeffrey Sklansky, University of Illinois, Chicago
"The Financial Turn in Union Pensions: The Pension Fund of Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Workers Local 65 "
Yally Avrahampour, London School of Economics
"The Consequences of the Rise of the Market for Institutional Fund Management (1974-1978) for Corporate Governance "

Coffee Break, 9:50am - 10:10am

Georgia Ballroom Pre-Function

Concurrent Sessions 6, 10:10am - 11:40am

Session a: Labor and Liability in Postwar American Radio
Roswell
Chair: Andy Stuhl, Tufts University
Discussant: Cynthia Meyers, University of Mount Saint Vincent
Sadie Couture, McGill University
"'Problem Areas': Responsibility and Risk in Postwar Call-in Talk Radio"
Alexander Russo, Catholic University of America
"'Memo to Client Stations:' Radio Consultants, Untrustworthy Labor, and Station Liability in the 1950s Payola Scandals"
Andy Stuhl, Tufts University
"“‘Live’ spelled backwards is ‘evil’:” How Radio’s Automation Industry Redefined Creative Labor"
Session b: Labor and the Business of Race
Lenox
Chair: Bethany Moreton, Dartmouth University
Discussant: Bethany Moreton, Dartmouth University
Micah Jones, University of Virginia
"“Negroes Don’t Trade Here;” Boycotting for Jobs in Depression Era Atlanta"
Eshe Sherley , Wake Forest University
"Maid’s Honor Day, Race, and the Business of Domestic Labor in 1970s Atlanta"
Danielle Wiggins, California Institute of Technology
"“Big Government, Big Minority, and Big Oil:” The NAACP and the Energy Crisis in 1970s Black America "
Session c: Middlemen of Capital: Imperial Administrators and Railroad Regulators in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Peachtree
Chair: William Childs, Ohio State University
Discussant: Hannah Knox Tucker, Copenhagen Business School
Chris Choe, University of Georgia
"Making of an American Imperial Class: An Empirical Study of Ruling Class Consciousness at the Canal Zone"
Lauren Braun-Strumfels, Cedar Crest College
""It is the Italian that I want": Railroad Recruitment and the Business of Colonization in the Progressive Era South "
Bryant Barnes, University of Georgia
"Wrangling with the Iron Horse: Railroad Regulation Within, Without, and between the State"
Session d: Gender, Sexuality, and the World of Work
Georgia Ballroom East
Chair: Margot Canaday, Princeton University
Discussant: Allison Elias, University of Virginia
Stephanie Seketa, Ringling College of Art and Design
"Lacing Together Histories: Labor and Globalization in the British Corset Industry"
Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Miami University, and Matthew Regele, Xavier University
"Confidence Women: The Role of Dance Fitness Entrepreneurs and Workers in Multi-Level Marketing History"
Daniel Levinson Wilk, SUNY-Fashion Institute of Technology, and Ethan Gonzales, SUNY-Fashion Institute of Technology, and Peshi Kendall, SUNY-Fashion Institute of Technology
"Queer Work: Oral History at SUNY-Fashion Institute of technology"
Session e: Bridging the Gap: Integrating Climate Change into Business History
Atlanta Ballroom A
Chair: Teresa da Silva Lopes, University of York
Discussant: The Audience
Mary Yeager, University of California, Los Angeles
Bartow J. Elmore, Ohio State University
Paul Duguid, University of California, Berkeley
Andrea Lluch, CONICET / Universidad de los Andes
Niels Haueter, SwissRe / University of York
Session f: Railways as Agents of the State: A Roundtable
Atlanta Ballroom B
Chair: Steven Usselman, Georgia Tech
Discussant: Albert Churella, Kennesaw State University
Maddock Thomas, Brown University
Benjamin Spohn, Hagley Museum and Library
Kimberly Kracman, Princeton University
Benjamin Kletzer, University of California, San Diego
Uday Schultz, Independent Scholar
Session g: Business and Labor in Colonial India and Beyond
Buckhead
Chair: William Black, University of North Georgia
Rohit Prabu, European University Institute
"Information and Economic Organization: The English East India Company and Cloth Procurement in Coromandel in the Eighteenth Century"
Christina Lubinski, Copenhagen Business School
"Gathering Intelligence: Business Responses to Populism in India and West Africa, 1940s to 1980s"
Rebekah McCallum, Penn State University
"Employee and Labor Contracts on British company Tea Plantations in early Twentieth-century India"
Pallavi Singh, Queen's University, Belfast
"Growth of Modern Industry, Transfer of Corporate Power, and the Role of Community: Evidence from Listed Joint-Stock Firms in India, 1920s – 1970s"
Session h: Counterfeits, Frauds, and the Value of Early Modern Money
Atlanta Ballroom C&D
Chair: Andrew Konove, University of Texas, San Antonio
Discussant: Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia
Kris Lane, Tulane University
"Hard Liquid, Watered Down: A Case of Criminal Currency Debasement in the Seventeenth Century"
Ellen Nye, Purdue University
"Fraud on the Nile: Resisting an Imperial Currency Union in Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Egypt"
Andrew Konove, University of Texas, San Antonio
"A Pecuniary Epidemic: Counterfeit Copper and National Sovereignty in 1830s Mexico"
Session i: Making the Electronic Century: Labor, Materials, Technics
Sky Salon
Chair: Lee Vinsel, Virginia Tech
Discussant: Lee Vinsel, Virginia Tech
Ella Coon, Columbia University
"Electronics Assembly and the Rise and Fall of the US Developmental Empire in Korea, 1967-1982"
Miri Powell, Stanford University
"Of Silicon, Quartz, and Hurricanes: An Environmental History of Semiconductors, 1957-2024"
Ben Kodres-O'Brien, Columbia University
"The Dash for Gas: Horizontal Drills, Combustion Turbines, and the Uneven Restructuring of the US Power Sector"

Women in Business History Lunch, 11:40am - 1:10pm

Georgia Ballroom West

Concurrent Sessions 7, 1:10pm - 2:40pm

Session a: Early Modern Business and Finance
Roswell
Chair: Youssef Cassis, European University Institute
Discussant: Kris Lane, Tulane University
Adoracion Alvaro-Moya, CUNEF Universidad
"The Spiritual Services Business: The Case of the Monastery of Guadalupe (15th-17th centuries)"
Jessica Lomas, University of Reading
"“Corporate Paternalism” in 15th-16th Century Florence and Perugia: Insights from the Monte di Pieta Account Books"
Amanda Ortiz Molina, Binghamton University
"Indigenous Capital in Colonial Credit Markets: A Study of Indigenous Community Treasuries in Eighteenth-Century New Granada"
Session b: Transforming the Occupational Landscape: Capital Mobility, Regional Economic Development, and Apprenticeship Programs
Lenox
Chair: Elizabeth Shermer, Loyola University
Discussant: Elizabeth Shermer, Loyola University
Alyssa Kuchinski, Harvard University
"'Letting the Fox Loose among the Chickens': The Fantus Company's Conflict of Interest and Effect on Public Policy"
Sam Schirvar, University of Pennsylvania
"Tribal Enterprise and the Fate of Public Investment in the Late Twentieth Century United States"
Neil Johnson, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Automating Inequality: Technology, Apprenticeship, and the Civil Rights Struggle Over Skilled Work"
Session c: Undertaking Ingenuity in Work and Labor Management
Peachtree
Chair: Eric Godelier, École Polytechnique
Discussant: Eric Godelier, École Polytechnique
Ted Beatty, Notre Dame University, and Israel García Solares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
"Codified and Tacit Knowledge and the International Business of Technology Adoption"
Marcela Efmertová, Czech Technical University
"How a Career Change Brings Ingenuity to a New Field: The Example of Joachim Barrande, a Railway Builder Who Became a World-Renowned Paleontologist"
Alain Michel, Paris Saclay Evry University
"Revisiting the Heroic Narrative of the Machine Tools Innovations through the History of Ingenious Practices, the Teachings of Biography and the Concepts of Casuistry"
Session d: Labor and Democratic Struggles
Atlanta Ballroom B
Chair: Mark H. Rose, Florida Atlantic University
Discussant: Philip Scranton, Rutgers University
Chad Pearson, University of North Texas
"’White supremacy doesn’t want Negroes exterminated, but Negro labor intimidated’: Employer Interests and the Second Klan"
Edoardo Altamura, University of Manchester / University of Lausanne
"Attacking Labour: Latin American Workers from Military Dictatorships to the Neoliberal Transition"
Sage Goodwin, Harvard University
"Making the News: Network Television and the Black Freedom Struggle"
Alexia Blin, Sorbonne Nouvelle
"Cooperative Businesses, Model Employers or Labor’s Foes? The Case of Wisconsin in the 1930s"
Session e: Paid to Smile: The Business Histories of Gendered Work and Emotional Labor
Atlanta Ballroom A
Chair: Mary Yeager, University of California, Los Angeles
Discussant: Christy Chapin, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Ai Hisano, University of Tokyo
"Gendered Personality as an Asset: 'Restaurant Girls' and Japanese Department Stores, 1900s–1930s"
Megan Elias, Boston University
"'Radiating Harmony and Happiness': Emotional Labor and the Hotel Social Director"
Yen Nie Yong, Kyoto University
"The Singapore Girl: Idealizations of Work and National Identity in Postcolonial Singapore, 1970s–2000s"
Session f: The Cultural Industries of Atlanta Roundtable: Voices from Georgia's Film and Music Industries
Georgia Ballroom East
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Chair: Jessica Levy, Purchase College, SUNY
Discussant: The Audience
Kennard Garrett, RACE Recordings
Brandon Butler, ButterATL
Dr. Shady Radical, The Radical Archive of Preservation
Session g: 'The Archivist Is In!' - A Roundtable on Finding Business and Labor History Resources in Archives
Sky Salon
Chair: Steven Calco, Cornell University
Discussant: The Audience
Elizabeth Parker, Cornell University
Steven Calco, Cornell University
Marcie Farwell, Cornell University
Session h: Jewishness and Wall Street in the Late-Twentieth Century
Buckhead
Chair: Susie Pak, St. John’s University
Discussant: Susie Pak, St. John’s University
Aaron Freedman, Columbia University
"Jews with Money: An Ethnic History of Financialization, 1979-1992"
Dylan Gottlieb, Bentley University
"Takeover: Jewish Law Firms and the Work of Financialization"
Rebecca Kobrin, Columbia University
"'From Silent Partner to Ideal Jewish Mother': Gender, Jewishness and the Making of Late-Twentieth Century American Investment Banking"
Session i: Business and Labor in 20th Century Multinationals: International Regulation, Internal Organization
Atlanta Ballroom C&D
Chair: Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Discussant: Paula de la Cruz-Fernández, University of Florida
Francesca Sanna, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès
"Management Techniques as a Business lf Labour: The Circulation of the Bedaux System at the Peñarroya Mining Company in the Interwar Years"
Patrick Fridenson, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
"French trade unions and the impact of multinationalisation in a state-owned company: Renault, 1944-1975"
Maia Müller, Université de Lausanne
"Key Partners: International Business Associations and the Regulation of Multinational Corporations"

Poster Session, 2:40pm - 3:30pm

Georgia Ballroom Pre-Function

Evan Brown, Columbia University
"Scouting Territories: Making and Managing Baseball's Transnational Labor Market, 1947–65"

Ryan Dearinger, George Fox University
"Building Hoptopia: A Labor History of One of the Pacific Northwest's Most Iconic Industries"

Nora Draper, University of New Hampshire 
"The Polaroid Promise: A Broken Social Contract and the Decline of an American Industrial Icon"

Ganlin Li, Zhejiang University
"Behaving Like Sages: How Good-ark Strategically Use Religious Beliefs to Give Meanings to Entrepreneurial Activities"

Mattia Ravano, Bocconi University
"Between Size and Profitability: The Privatization of Italian Telecom (1980–2010)" 

Felicitas Santurio, Universidad Católica Argentina
"Women, Work, and Family: The Female Workers of the Bunge y Born Group (1914-1965)"

Anne Schaller, Vanderbilt University
"Procompetitive Effects of State Antitrust Laws: Evidence from the Progressive Era"

Ella Stensdotter, Umeå University
"The Swedish Employers’ Confederation and the Anglo-Saxon World"

Spencer Tompkins, Fordham University
"Privatizing Diplomacy: The U.S. Department of Commerce and the Rise of Commercial Policy in Brazil during Globalization" 

Moeko Yamazaki, University of Oregon
"Welfare Capitalism in the Age of Neoliberalism: The History of the Council for a Union-Free Environment, 1977-1994"

Hideki Yoshikawa, Kyoto University
"Private Health Insurance during the AIDS Crisis: Underwriting Practices and Government Intervention"

View all posters online.

Concurrent Sessions 8, 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Session a: Banking and Oral History
Sky Salon
Discussant: Sean Vanatta, University of Glasgow
Youssef Cassis, European University Institute
"Bankers' Experience and Memory of Financial Crises, 1980s-2020s"
Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, Northumbria University, and Miguel A. López-Morell, Universidad de Murcia
"The Digitalization of Mexican Retail Banking: The Case of Banamex, 1970s-2010s"
Ricardo Salas-Díaz, Dartmouth College
"Why Do Central Bankers Promote Cultural Institutions? National Heritage Meets Economic Policy Through Six Events in The History of The Banco De La República"
Session b: Methodology: Digital Tools for Business History
Lenox
Chair: Wendy Woloson, Rutgers University, Camden
Discussant: Juliette Levy, University of California, Riverside
Zhaojin Zeng, Texas A&M University, San Antonio
"Decoding the Socialist Business Genre: A Computational Reading of Mao-era China’s Industrial Enterprise Texts"
Samuel Backer, University of Maine
"Who Built Mass Culture? Computational Approaches to the Origins of the American Entertainment Industry "
Julio Cesar Zuluaga, Univeridad Icesi
"Developmental ecosystems in the Americas: the Emergence and transformation of the Autonomous Development Corporation CVC in Colombia 1954-2000"
Session c: Working at IBM
Peachtree
Chair: Steven Usselman, Georgia Tech
Discussant: Steven Usselman, Georgia Tech
David L. Stebenne, Ohio State University
"The Emergence and Evolution of IBM’s “Grand Bargain,” 1933-1971"
James Cortada, University of Minnesota
"Death of the 'Grand Bargain': Working at IBM in a Time of Growth and Crisis, 1970s-2000"
Corinna Schlombs, Rochester Institute of Technology
"Data Entry Challenges: IBM, Work, and Technological Change"
Session d: Migration, Labor, and Informal Economies
Buckhead
Chair: Marina Moskowitz, University of Wisconsin
Discussant: The Audience
Sergio Infante, Yale University
"The Cinderella of Underdevelopment, Or, How The Informal Sector Redrew the Map of Labor"
Yushuang Zheng, Johns Hopkins University
"​​​​​​​​Death Brokers: The Informal Economy of the Afterlife in China"
Nahomi Esquivel, University of Chicago
"“Green Card Guestworkers:” A New Reading of 1960s Immigration and Agricultural History "
Session e: The Corporate Governance to Securities Law Spectrum
Atlanta Ballroom C&D
Chair: Adam C. Pritchard, University of Michigan
Discussant: Adam C. Pritchard, University of Michigan
Naomi Lamoreaux, University of Michigan / Yale University
"Do Entrepreneurs Want Control? And Should They Get What They Want? A Historical and Theoretical Exploration"
Robert Thompson, Georgetown University
"The Ascendance of the Delaware Supreme Court in American Corporate Law in the 1980s"
Kevin R. Douglas, Michigan State University
"Finding Empirical Measures of Market Confidence Using Goodwin v. Agassiz"
Session f: Engaging with Labor History: A Roundtable
Atlanta Ballroom A
Chair: Melanie Sheehan, Hartwick College
Discussant: The Audience
Alyssa Kuchinski, Harvard University
Shennette Garrett-Scott, Tulane University
Louis Hyman, Johns Hopkins University
Session g: Agribusiness, Labor, and the Environment
Roswell
Chair: Marc Levinson, Independent Scholar
Discussant: Bartow J. Elmore, Ohio State University
Bridget Diana, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Safety Regulation: For Whom? The Effects of Poultry Slaughter Line Speed Regulation on Industry Profits"
Shane Hamilton, University of York
"The Rise of the Global Beef Complex: Strategy, Structure, and the Global Climate Crisis"
Ellan Spero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Transforming Business and Biomass: From Chemurgy to Green Materials"
Session h: Roundtable Celebrating Margot Canaday's Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
Georgia Ballroom East
Chair: Margot Canaday, Princeton
Bethany Moreton, Dartmouth University
Caley Horan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jessica Levy, Purchase College, SUNY
Session i: Transnational Institutions and Local Actors in Management Development Debates in the Global South
Atlanta Ballroom B
Chair: Eric Godelier, École Polytechnique
Discussant: Amanda Gibson, University of Virginia
Deonnie Moodie, University of Oklahoma
"Producing Hindu Economicus: A Transimperial History of Higher Commercial Education"
Douglas Haynes, Dartmouth College
"The Harvard Business School, the Case Method and the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, 1959-1970"
Rolv Petter Amdam, BI Norwegian Business School, and Laurent Beduneau-Wang, Africa Business School
"Introducing Management Development and Training in North Africa"
Andrea Lluch, CONICET / Universidad de los Andes
"Development and Human Resources: ILO Technical Assistance Missions on Productivity and Management Development in Latin America during the 1950s to 1970s"
Session j: Capitalism in China and America
Georgia Ballroom West
Chair: David Sicilia, University of Maryland
Discussant: David Sicilia, University of Maryland
Dan Du, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
"From an ‘Indian’ cloth to ‘Colored People’s Cotton’: Chinese Nankeens in America"
Alastair Su, Westmont College
"The Bailout of 1846: Canton, Michigan and the Canton Trade"
Judd Kinzley, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Chinese Tungsten in America’s Postwar Order"
Bill Kelson, Henry Kaufman Fellow
"Debt between Empires: Transimperial Credit in Late-Qing China"

Emerging Scholar Committee Ice Cream Social, 5:00pm - 5:45pm

Georgia Ballroom Pre-Function

Book Auction, 5:45pm - 6:05pm

Georgia Ballroom Pre-Function

Last call at 6:00 pm.

Presidential Address, 6:15pm - 7:15pm

Georgia Ballroom East

Cocktail Reception, 7:15pm - 8:00pm

Georgia Ballroom Pre-Function

Award Ceremony and Banquet, 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Atlanta Ballroom

DJ Party, 10:00pm - 12:00am

Atlanta Ballroom

Tour 3: Coca Cola Museum with Bart Elmore, 10:00am - 1:00pm

Meet at the conference hotel

[PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED]

Meeting Point: the conference hotel. The tour will last 2.5 to 3 hours.

The 2-mile (one-way) walking tour will start at the conference hotel and end at the World of Coca-Cola, a museum and “happiness factory” that includes historical artifacts from Coke’s past. The cost of this tour covers tickets for entrance into the World of Coca-Cola, which will be our final destination. 

In 1886, a pharmacist named John Pemberton created a formula for a drink he called Coca-Cola which he first sold at a pharmacy just a few blocks from our hotel. Join historian Bart Elmore on the trail as we talk about the history of this company whose headquarters is within eyeshot of our conference. 

2025 BHC Membership Meeting (online), 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Zoom

A Zoom link will be sent via email before the meeting. The time is Eastern Time.