All Outputs (19)

Coping with competition: cooperation and collusion in the US stove industry, c.1870-1930 (2012)
Journal Article
Harris, H. (2012). Coping with competition: cooperation and collusion in the US stove industry, c.1870-1930. Business History Review, 86(4), 657-692. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007680512001808

This article examines the attempts of several generations of manufacturers of cooking and heating appliances to manage competition in their very unconcentrated industry. They started with overt price-fixing, which soon failed, then moved on to a vari... Read More about Coping with competition: cooperation and collusion in the US stove industry, c.1870-1930.

'The Stove Trade Needs Change Continually': Designing the First Mass-Market Consumer Durable, ca. 1810-1930 (2009)
Journal Article
Harris, H. J. (2009). 'The Stove Trade Needs Change Continually': Designing the First Mass-Market Consumer Durable, ca. 1810-1930. Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture, 43(4), 365-406. https://doi.org/10.1086/648372

Cast-iron stoves for heating and cooking became ubiquitous features of the American home by the middle of the nineteenth century and remained an important domestic technology into the early twentieth. Their makers invested a great deal of effort into... Read More about 'The Stove Trade Needs Change Continually': Designing the First Mass-Market Consumer Durable, ca. 1810-1930.

Conquering winter: U.S. consumers and the cast-iron stove (2008)
Journal Article
Harris, H. J. (2008). Conquering winter: U.S. consumers and the cast-iron stove. Building Research and Information, 36(4), 337-350. https://doi.org/10.1080/09613210802117411

The history of the revolution in heating and cooking technology in the United States in the first half of the 19th century is explored along with the resulting transformation of the American indoor wintertime climate. It is argued, contra William Mey... Read More about Conquering winter: U.S. consumers and the cast-iron stove.

Inventing the U.S. stove industry, c. 1815-1875: making and selling the first universal consumer durable (2008)
Journal Article
Harris, H. J. (2008). Inventing the U.S. stove industry, c. 1815-1875: making and selling the first universal consumer durable. Business History Review, 82(4), 701-733. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007680500063170

This article examines the emergence of the American stove industry, detailing the complex interactions among changes in the product, the organization of production, and the methods of selling cast-iron heating and cooking equipment to consumers natio... Read More about Inventing the U.S. stove industry, c. 1815-1875: making and selling the first universal consumer durable.

Between convergence and exceptionalism: Americans and the British model of labor relations, c. 1867-1920 (2007)
Journal Article
Harris, H. J. (2007). Between convergence and exceptionalism: Americans and the British model of labor relations, c. 1867-1920. Labor History, 48(2), 141-173. https://doi.org/10.1080/00236560701224726

Between the late 1860s and the aftermath of the First World War, American discourse about the 'labor problem' - relations among workers, unions, employers, and the state - was permeated by comparisons. Reformers looked especially toward Britain, the... Read More about Between convergence and exceptionalism: Americans and the British model of labor relations, c. 1867-1920.

Industrial paternalism and welfare capitalism: 'where's the beef?' or 'show me the money!' (2003)
Book Chapter
Harris, H. (2003). Industrial paternalism and welfare capitalism: 'where's the beef?' or 'show me the money!'. In R. Baritono, D. Frezza, A. Lorini, M. Vaudagna, & E. Vezzosi (Eds.), Public and private in American history : state, family, subjectivity in the twentieth century (459-482). Otto Editore

The spatial mobility of ordinary people: a civil-war era case (2002)
Book Chapter
Harris, H. (2002). The spatial mobility of ordinary people: a civil-war era case. In C. A. V. Minnen, & S. Hilton (Eds.), Nation on the move : mobility in U.S. history (111-128). Vrije Universiteit Press

Industrial history: the state of the art (2002)
Book Chapter
Harris, H. (2002). Industrial history: the state of the art. In M. Stokes (Ed.), The state of U.S. history (179-197). Berg

Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940 (2000)
Book
Harris, H. (2000). Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.2277/0521584353

This book examines how a group of manufacturers of metal products - 'everything from buttonhooks to battleships' - in America's third biggest city helped each other to meet the challenges of organized labour (and sometimes an interventionist state) i... Read More about Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940.

The rocky road to mass production: change and continuity in the US foundry industry, 1890-1940 (2000)
Journal Article
Harris, H. (2000). The rocky road to mass production: change and continuity in the US foundry industry, 1890-1940. Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History, 1(2), 391-437. https://doi.org/10.1093/es/1.2.391

This article is a pioneering exploration of technological change in the U.S. foundry industry from the period of its most dramatic growth through its interwar stagnation and decline. Not only does it describe key changes in the mechanization and reor... Read More about The rocky road to mass production: change and continuity in the US foundry industry, 1890-1940.

War in the social order: the Great War and the liberalization of American Quakerism (1999)
Book Chapter
Harris, H. (1999). War in the social order: the Great War and the liberalization of American Quakerism. In D. K. Adams, & C. A. V. Minnen (Eds.), Religious and secular reform in America : ideas, beliefs, and social change (179-203). Edinburgh University Press

Interwar American histories: left, right, and wrong (1999)
Journal Article
Harris, H. J. (1999). Interwar American histories: left, right, and wrong. Historical Journal, 42(1), 293-308. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x98008401

Industrial democracy and liberal capitalism, ca. 1890-1920 (1993)
Book Chapter
Harris, H. (1993). Industrial democracy and liberal capitalism, ca. 1890-1920. In N. Lichtenstein, & H. Harris (Eds.), Industrial democracy : the ambiguous promise (43-66). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.2277/0521431212

Durable goods: steelworkers in America after three decades (1993)
Journal Article
Harris, H. (1993). Durable goods: steelworkers in America after three decades. Labor History, 34(4), 479-489. https://doi.org/10.1080/00236569300890291

Employers' collective action in the open-shop era: the Metal Manufacturers' Association of Philadelphia, c. 1903-1933 (1991)
Book Chapter
Harris, H. (1991). Employers' collective action in the open-shop era: the Metal Manufacturers' Association of Philadelphia, c. 1903-1933. In S. Tolliday, & J. Zeitlin (Eds.), The power to manage? employers and industrial relations in comparative-historical perspective (117-146). Routledge

Getting it together: the Metal Manufacturers' Association of Philadelphia, ca. 1990-1930 (1991)
Book Chapter
Harris, H. (1991). Getting it together: the Metal Manufacturers' Association of Philadelphia, ca. 1990-1930. In S. Jacoby (Ed.), Masters to managers : historical and comparative perspectives on American employers (111-131). Columbia University Press

The Master Craftsman (1989)
Journal Article
Harris, H. (1989). The Master Craftsman. Labor History, 30(1), 93-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/00236568900890041

The snares of liberalism? Politicians, bureaucrats, and the shaping of federal labour relations policy, ca. 1915-1947 (1985)
Book Chapter
Harris, H. (1985). The snares of liberalism? Politicians, bureaucrats, and the shaping of federal labour relations policy, ca. 1915-1947. In S. Tolliday, & J. Zeitlin (Eds.), Shop floor bargaining and the state : historical and comparative perspectives (148-191). Cambridge University Press

The Right to Manage: Industrial Relations Policies of American Business in the 1940s (1982)
Book
Harris, H. (1982). The Right to Manage: Industrial Relations Policies of American Business in the 1940s. University of Wisconsin Press