Book Reviews: By subject: Household, Family and Consumer History
- Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives
- by E. Wayne Carp (editor)
- reviewed by John Murray on June 8, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- An Affluent Society? Britain's Postwar Golden Age Revisited
- by Lawrence Black and Hugh Pemberton (editors)
- reviewed by Mark Clapson on April 6, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- American Treasure and the Price Revolution in Spain, 1501-1650
- by Earl J. Hamilton
- reviewed by John Munro on January 15, 2007
- Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption 1939-1955
- by Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska
- reviewed by John Singleton on July 1, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada
- by Béatrice Craig
- reviewed by Marilyn Gerriets on January 7, 2010
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
- by Richard W. Unger
- reviewed by Erik Aerts on January 11, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950
- by Avner Offer
- reviewed by John F. Helliwell on January 18, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740-1914
- by Margot C. Finn
- reviewed by Laura Ugolini on April 7, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919
- by Margaret Garb
- reviewed by Fred H. Smith on May 1, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South
- by Dylan C. Penningroth
- reviewed by James R. Irwin on April 21, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain: The Search for a Historical Movement
- by Matthew Hilton
- reviewed by Lawrence Black on September 17, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of Desire
- by Peter N. Stearns
- reviewed by Jasmine Aimaq on January 1, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- The Cost of Living in America: A Political History of Economic Statistics, 1880-2000
- by Thomas A. Stapleford
- reviewed by Trevon Logan on February 11, 2010
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West
- by Thomas A. Krainz
- reviewed by Dawn Saunders on April 12, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- Discriminating Risk: The U.S. Mortgage Lending Industry in the Twentieth Century
- by Guy Stuart
- reviewed by William J. Collins on June 21, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Domestic Goods: The Material, the Moral, and the Economic in the Postwar Years
- by Joy Parr
- reviewed by Pippa Brush on February 11, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- Dutra's World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
- by Zephyr L. Frank
- reviewed by Marshall C. Eakin on December 9, 2005
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q)
- The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World
- by Robert William Fogel
- reviewed by Cormac Ó Gráda on October 19, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Estadísticas históricas de España: Siglos XIX - XX
- by Albert Carreras and Xavier Tafunell (editors)
- reviewed by Mauricio Drelichman on August 16, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Family Fictions and Family Facts: Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet and the Population Question in England, 1798-1859
- by Brian Cooper
- reviewed by Evelyn L. Forget on January 11, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- Food and the City in Europe since 1800
- by Peter J. Atkins, Peter Lummel and Derek J. Oddy (editors)
- reviewed by Richard Perren on February 27, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- For the Common Good? American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity
- by Jason Kaufman
- reviewed by David T. Beito on February 18, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer
- by Kathleen G. Donohue
- reviewed by Larry G. Gerber on June 8, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers
- by Allan Kulikoff
- reviewed by Winifred B. Rothenberg on September 7, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967
- by David T. Beito
- reviewed by J. C. Herbert Emery on August 1, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- A Good Day's Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression
- by Dwight W. Hoover
- reviewed by Alan G. Bogue on October 24, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster
- by Werner Troesken
- reviewed by Robert A. Margo on June 27, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Her Day in Court: Women’s Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada
- by Maya Shatzmiller
- reviewed by Ghislaine Lydon on May 1, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Historical Statistics of the United States, Volume One: Population
- by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
- reviewed by Trevon D. Logan on July 17, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Historical Statistics of the United States, Volume Three: Economic Structure and Performance
- by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
- reviewed by Joseph H. Davis on July 23, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The History of Consumer Credit: Doctrines and Practices
- by Rosa-Maria Gelpi and François Julien-Labruyère
- reviewed by Lendol G. Calder on August 25, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- A History of Household Government in America
- by Carole Shammas
- reviewed by Gloria L. Main on March 26, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- Household Accounts: Working Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States
- by Susan Porter Benson
- reviewed by Marianne Ward on February 18, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- Hunger: A Modern History
- by James Vernon
- reviewed by Timothy Cuff on August 18, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning
- by Regina Lee Blaszczyk
- reviewed by Lendol G. Calder on August 13, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present
- by Jan de Vries
- reviewed by Hans-Joachim Voth on May 27, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole and Rehabilitation
- by Peter Fearon
- reviewed by Todd Sorensen on November 5, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Kinship and Capitalism: Marriage, Family, and Business in the English-Speaking World, 1580-1740
- by Richard Grassby
- reviewed by Stephen Caunce on June 4, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Business History (B), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Liability Century: Insurance and Tort Law from the Progressive Era to 9/11
- by Kenneth S. Abraham
- reviewed by Sachin S. Pandya on May 5, 2009
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Making Freedom Pay: North Carolina Freedpeople Working for Themselves, 1864-1900
- by Sharon Ann Holt
- reviewed by Nancy Virts on May 21, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence
- by T. H. Breen
- reviewed by Farley Grubb on December 7, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Men and Menswear: Sartorial Consumption in Britain, 1880-1939
- by Laura Ugolini
- reviewed by Clare Rose on June 26, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Nylon: The Story of a Fashion Revolution
- by Susannah Handley
- reviewed by Michael Palairet on November 9, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds
- by John E. Murray
- reviewed by Melissa A. Thomasson on February 4, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
- by Joel Mokyr (editor)
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on April 20, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Servitude and Slavery (N), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England
- by Gloria L. Main
- reviewed by Daniel Scott Smith on December 10, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
- by Meg Jacobs
- reviewed by Robert Collins on July 13, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Politics of Child Support in America
- by Jocelyn Elise Crowley
- reviewed by Stephen T. Ziliak on March 24, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Poor Relief and Welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World War I
- by Larry Frohman
- reviewed by John E. Murray on April 16, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Poverty and Welfare in England, 1700-1850: A Regional Perspective
- by Steven King
- reviewed by Stephen Ziliak on October 24, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Military and War (O), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Poverty in Britain, 1900-1965
- by Ian Gazeley
- reviewed by George R. Boyer on November 23, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Production and Consumption in English Households, 1600-1750
- by Mark Overton, Jane Whittle, Darron Dean and Andrew Hann
- reviewed by Carole Shammas on April 1, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Regulated Lives: Life Insurance and British Society, 1800-1914
- by Timothy Alborn
- reviewed by Sharon Ann Murphy on January 18, 2010
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England: Gender, Work and Wages
- by Nicola Verdon
- reviewed by Joyce Burnette on January 25, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Selling Themselves: The Emergence of Canadian Advertising
- by Russell Johnston
- reviewed by George Emery on February 23, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- The Shoemakers of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1850-1880: The Family during the Transition from Hand to Machine Labor
- by William H. Mulligan, Jr.
- reviewed by Christiane Diehl Taylor on August 17, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
- A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-53
- by Julie Hessler
- reviewed by Valery Lazarev on January 12, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940
- by Arwen Mohun
- reviewed by Jeffrey M. Hornstein on November 14, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking
- by Wilson J. Warren
- reviewed by Thomas N. Maloney on May 6, 2009
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Weaver's Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania
- by Adrienne D. Hood
- reviewed by Kris Inwood on July 1, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Widows and Orphans First: The Family Economy and Social Welfare Policy, 1880-1939
- by S. J. Kleinberg
- reviewed by Carolyn M. Moehling on June 7, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Working Class Credit and Community since 1918
- by Avram Taylor
- reviewed by Peter Scott on August 30, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
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