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Volume 63 - Winter 1989

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Continuity, Chance and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England. ByE. A. Wrigley · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. viii + 146 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95.

Gainful Pursuits: The Making of Industrial Europe, 1600–1914. By Jordan Goodman and Katrina Honeyman · New York: Edward Arnold, 1988. ix + 262 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $19.95.

The History of the British Coal Industry. Volume 4: 1913–1946: The Political Economy of Decline. By Barry Supple · New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xxv + 733 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $98.00.

Trade Associations in Business History: The International Conference on Business History 14; Proceedings of the Fuji Conference.Edited byHiroaki Tamazaki and Matao Miyamoto · New York: University of Tokyo Press, 1988. xxiii + 326 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $47.50.

Business in the Age of Reason.Edited byR.P.T. Davenport-Hines and Jonathan Liebenau · Totowa, N.J.: Frank Cass, 1987. 224 pp. Notes and index. $29.50.

Worktime and Industrialization: An International History. Edited by Gary Cross · Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1989. vii + 251 pp. Notes and index. $34.95.

Wages and Unemployment Policy, 1936–1985. By Russell Jones · Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin, 1987. xviii + 175 pp. Tables, notes, select bibliography, and index. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $14.95.

The Arkwrights: Spinners of Fortune. ByR. S. Fitton · New York: Manchester University Press, 1989. xiv + 322 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, bibliography, and index. $70.00.

The Commerce in Rubber: The First 250 Years.ByAustin Coates · New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xv + 380 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.50.

British Historical Statistics. By B. R. Mitchell. · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xi + 886 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, and index. $135.00.

Risk and Failure in English Business, 1700–1800. ByJulian Hoppit, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. vii + 228 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.50.

Canadian Papers in Business History, Vol. 1. Edited by Peter Baskerville · Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria Public History Group, 1989. vi + 269 pp. Tables and notes. $19.95.

A History of the Burmah Oil Company. Volume 2: 1924–1966.ByT.A.B. Corley · London: William Heinemann, 1988. xvi + 416 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendixes, notes, and index. £20.00.

Trade and Shipping: Lord Inchcape, 1852–1932. ByStephanie Jones · New York: Manchester University Press, 1989. xiii + 222 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, note on sources, and index. $59.95.

The History of N. V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken. Volume 1: The Origin of the Dutch Incandescent Lamp Industry. By A. Heerding, trans. Derek S. Jordan · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xiii + 343 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $47.50.

Studies in the Business History of Bristol. Edited by Charles E. Harvey and Jon Press. Bristol: Bristol Academic Press, 1988. xvi + 278 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, and index. £9.95.

Making and Marketing Arms: The French Experience and Its Implications for the International System.ByEdward A. Kolodziej · Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987. xxv + 518 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $55.00.

The First Privatisation: The Politicians, the City, and the Denationalisation of Steel. By Kathleen Burk · London: The Historians Press, 1988. ix + 158 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, £14.95; paper, £4.95.

Arbeitszeitverkürzung und sozialer Wandel: Der Kampf um die Achtstundenschicht in der deutschen und amerikanischen Eisen-und Stahlindustrie, 1880–1929. By Irmgard Steinisch · Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1986. xiv + 640 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. DM 138.

Labour under the Marshall Plan: The Politics of Productivity and the Marketing of Management Science. ByAnthony Carew · Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1987. 293 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95.

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