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"This book introduces business historians to oral history methodologies and approaches. Using four distinct oral history case studies to explore ideas of disruption and continuity in business history over the second half of the twentieth century, Robert Crawford and Matthew Bailey demonstrate how critical engagement with oral history approaches serves to enhance and enliven business history as well as its relationship with other historical fields. The focus on disruption is used to encompass a broad set of processes such as technological change, the impact of external forces, informal business networks, social constructions of gender, knowledge transfer, firm adaptability and cultural change. The use of oral histories to interpret responses to disruption in the past, and to explore the features characterising business continuity, provides an opportunity to consider the human dimensions, subjective experiences and personal insights of workplace, firm and industry change. It also sheds light on the ways that people and firms respond to disruptive forces through innovation and adaptation - both successfully and unsuccessfully. This succinct and accessible account is essential reading for business historians with little experience in using oral history, as well as those looking to gain deeper insights from their oral history data"--

Commerce --- Oral history. --- Business history. --- History.

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The book investigates some aspects of the Italian economic development looking at some usually forgotten cases of international success: the small-medium enterprises specialized in “light” productions, such as food, beverages, and apparel. These firms have shown a peculiar ability to adapt, in order to cope with the instabilities of the international markets, modifying both their organization and their business strategies, elaborating an unusual entrepreneurial style, more attentive to the resources, constraints and vulnerabilities of the context.

Business history, Enterpreneurship, Italian brands, Made in Italy, History of Food and Beverages, Italy, 20th Century

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Business & Economics / Economic History --- Business & Economics / Corporate & Business History --- History / World --- History --- Neuere Geschichte --- Hessen

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Carl Franz Bally founded a shoe factory in Switzerland in 1851. Within decades, the Bally name had achieved worldwide recognition for its high-quality footwear. The history of modern footwear can be traced through the lens of Bally's corporate evolution. This book brings together the results of research on such topics as the economic importance of fashion, Bally's fortunes in the US, the career of shoe design, the sourcing and use of materials, and the rise of strategic product display. The research focuses on the 1930s and 1940s: years of economic crisis and war, characterized by a wide diversity of designs and increasing variety in product range. Shortages also led to experiments with materials and technical innovations. Featuring numerous points of contact with adjacent fields of historical study, this publication marks a contribution to the history of fashion as the history of industrially manufactured products.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. --- Bally. --- Business History. --- Cultural History. --- Cultural Studies. --- Culture. --- Design. --- Fashion Studies. --- Fashion. --- Industrial Design. --- Interwar Period. --- Shoes; Bally; Interwar Period; Industrial Design; Fashion; Business History; Fashion Studies; Design; Culture; Cultural History; Cultural Studies

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This work concerns working hours - in the past and in the present, in America and in Britain. The focus is on the relationship between working hours and outcome , such as production and health.

Hours of labor --- Wages --- Labor productivity --- Industrial hygiene --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History.