Business History, Volume 52, Issue 5 (2010)

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Oil on the water: Government regulation of a carcinogen in the twentieth-century Lancashire cotton spinning industry
David Higgins & Geoffrey Tweedale
Pages: 695-712
Published online: 20 Aug 2010
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Switzerland and the industrialisation of Japan: Swiss direct investments and technology transfers to Japan during the twentieth century
Pierre-Yves Donzé
Pages: 713-736
Published online: 20 Aug 2010
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Salaries and promotion opportunities in the English banking industry, 1890–1936
Andrew J. Seltzer
Pages: 737-759
Published online: 20 Aug 2010
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Rethinking the assembly line: Organisation, performance and productivity in Ford Motor Company, c. 1908–27
James M. Wilson & Alan McKinlay
Pages: 760-778
Published online: 20 Aug 2010
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Enforcing and re-enforcing trust: Employers, managers and upper-white-collar employees in Finnish manufacturing companies, 1920–1980
Susanna Fellman
Pages: 779-811
Published online: 20 Aug 2010
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Networks and business development: Convict businesspeople in Australia, 1817–24
Leanne Johns & Pierre van der Eng
Pages: 812-833
Published online: 20 Aug 2010
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The rise of Firefox in the web browser industry: The role of open source in setting standards
Ilan Oshri, Henk J. de Vries & Huibert de Vries
Pages: 834-856
Published online: 20 Aug 2010
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Book Reviews

Book Review
A social history of company law: Great Britain and the Australian colonies, 1854–1920
James Taylor
Pages: 857-858
Published online: 20 Aug 2010
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Women and their money 1700–1950: essays on women and finance
Hannah Barker
Pages: 858-860
Published online: 20 Aug 2010
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Trade and industry in early modern Italy
Guido Alfani
Pages: 860-862
Published online: 20 Aug 2010
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Politique et finance a travers l'Europe du XXe siècle. Entretiens avec Robert Jablon
Hubert Bonin
Pages: 862-863
Published online: 20 Aug 2010
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Russia's factory children: state, society, and law, 1800–1917
Michael C. Hickey
Pages: 863-865
Published online: 20 Aug 2010
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The history of black business in America: capitalism, race, entrepreneurship
Douglas Walter Bristol Jr
Pages: 865-867
Published online: 20 Aug 2010
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Engineering invention: Frank J. Sprague and the U.S. electrical industry
William J. Hausman
Pages: 867-869
Published online: 20 Aug 2010
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The cost of living in America: a political history of economic statistics
Giovanni Favero
Pages: 869-870
Published online: 20 Aug 2010
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Experiments in financial democracy: corporate governance and financial development in Brazil, 1882–1950
Manuel Llorca-Jaña
Pages: 870-872
Published online: 20 Aug 2010
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A business case for business history: how companies can profit from their past
Lesley Richmond
Pages: 872-873
Published online: 20 Aug 2010
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