Daniel Jacoby, University of Washington, Bothell Once the principal means by which craft workers learned their trades, apprenticeship plays a relatively small part in American life today. The essence of this institution has always involved an exchange of labor for training, yet apprenticeship has been far from constant over time as its survival in the […]
Published by EH.NET (September 2008) Bert De Munck, Steven L. Kaplan and Hugo Soly, editors, Learning on the Shop Floor: Historical Perspectives on Apprenticeship. New York: Berghahn, 2007. ix + 232 pp. $70 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-84545-341-1. Reviewed for EH.NET by Paul Ryan, Department of Management, King?s College London. This collection comes from a conference held […]
Published by EH.NET (September 2006) Karin L. Zipf, Labor of Innocents: Forced Apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715-1919. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. xi + 207 pp. $43 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8071-3045-1. Reviewed for EH.NET by T. Stephen Whitman, Department of History, Mount St. Mary’s University. Karin Zipf, of East Carolina University, provides in Labor […]
Published by EH.Net (June 2025). Patrick Gray, Joshua Hall, Ruth Wallis Herndon, and Javier Silvestre, editors. Standard of Living: Essays on Economics, History, and Religion in Honor of John E. Murray. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2023. xii + 480 pp. $169.99 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3031064760. Reviewed for EH.Net by Robert A. Margo, Boston University. The sudden […]
In Memoriam ECONOMICS HISTORY ASSOCIATION REMEMBERS WINIFRED BARR ROTHENBERG October 1, 2023 By Anne McCants Our colleague, Winnifred Barr Rothenberg, passed away on October 1, 2023. We would be sorely remiss if we failed to take proper notice of a life that was lived so extraordinarily well. So on this somber occasion I would like […]
Published by EH.Net (June 2023). Elizabeth Popp Berman. Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 344 pp. $35 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0691167381. Reviewed for EH.Net by Daniel Kuehn, The Urban Institute and George Washington University. Something significant changed in the political economy of the U.S. […]
Published by EH.Net (August 2020) Thomas Leng, Fellowship and Freedom: The Merchant Adventurers and the Restructuring of English Commerce, 1582-1700. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xi + 343 pp. $85 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-19-879447-9. Reviewed for EH.Net by Ellen M. Nye, Department of History, Yale University. Over the course of the seventeenth century, English trade […]
Published by EH.Net (March 2019) Sheilagh Ogilvie, The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. xvi + 645 pp. $40 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-691-13754-4. Reviewed for EH.Net by Jan de Vries, Department of History, University of California at Berkeley. Europe’s craft guilds have been a topic of interest to scholars for […]
Published by EH.Net (March 2015) Craufurd D. Goodwin, Walter Lippmann: Public Economist. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. ix + 414 pp. $35 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-674-36813-2. Reviewed for EH.Net by William J. Barber, Department of Economics, Wesleyan University. Few would quarrel with the judgment that Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) ranks as the dean of newspaper pundits. […]
Published by EH.Net (July 2014) Nigel Goose and Katrina Honeyman, editors, Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England: Diversity and Agency, 1750-1914. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013. xii + 358 pp. $135 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-4094-1114-7. Reviewed for EH.Net by Colin Heywood, Department of History, University of Nottingham. The editors set out their stall for this book […]
