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Benjamin Waterhouse

Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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business culture, Small Business, History of Entrepreneurship, Labor History, Business Political Activism, Business-Government Relations, Lobbying, Trade Associations

Benjamin Waterhouse is a historian of the culture and politics of business, primarily but not exclusively in the United States and mostly in the last 50 years or so. At UNC, he teaches courses on business history, financial crises, very recent U.S. history, and capitalism. His first book, Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA (Princeton University Press, 2014) explored how business associations and their lobbyists shaped economic policy and conservative politics between the 1960s and the 1990s. He published The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States (Simon & Schuster, 2017), a synthesis aimed at students and the general public. His current book, One Day I'll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion that Conquered America (W.W. Norton, 2024) examines the ideal of business ownership and entrepreneurship under the shadow of capitalist crisis since the 1970s.

Recent Presentations at BHC Annual Meetings
Service to the BHC
Investments Committee 2020 - 2023 [Chair 2022 - 2023]
Board of Trustees 2019 - 2022
Program Committee 2019 - 2020 [Chair 2019 - 2020]
Kerr Prize Committee 2015 - 2018 [Chair 2016 - 2017]
Kerr Prize Committee 2013 - 2014

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