History of Specific Companies/Corporate History

Otiginally published in 1975. At the time that Louis Galambos published The Public Image of Big Business in America in 1975, America had matured in...

This study, first published in 1986, examines and evaluates the personnel techniques and activities that were characteristic of one period in Ameri...

In this title, first published in 1918, Lord Leverhulme explores the ideas of co-partnership, piece-work, housing, and the benefits of shorter hour...

Here it is: the first-time look at the remarkable American multinational mass media empire and its century of entertainment—the story of Twentieth ...

The aim of this book is to explore and compare the welfare strategies of businesses, including the various forms of «paternalism», over two centuri...

The 1980s was the era when affordable computers came to UK homes. They were known as microcomputers as their ‘brain’ was a microprocessor chip. Bef...

Counter-Cola charts the history of one of the world’s most influential and widely known corporations, The Coca-Cola Company. Over the past 130 year...

A compelling look at the B Corp movement and why socially and environmentally responsible companies are vital for everyone’s future—"a valuable gui...

The 2008 financial collapse, the expansion of corporate and private wealth, the influence of money in politics-many of Wall Street's contemporary t...

When Carter Bryant began work on what would become the billion-dollar line of Bratz dolls, he was taking time off from his job at Mattel where he d...

For decades, the name Labatt was synonymous with beer in Canada, but no longer. Brewed in the North traces the birth, growth, and demise of one of ...

Follow along on the journey of the founding, development, and breakaway success of a multi-billion-dollar tech company Written by insiders Denise P...

The Making of the Modern Supermarket describes the emergence and growth of the modern supermarket format in Britain, showing how the original Ameri...

The compelling story of how one man took a 150-year-old family recipe and disrupted the entire liquor industry one sip, one bottle, one handshake a...

Founded at Tom's Coffee House in the early 18th century, this family business came to dominate the London tea trade. A History of Twinings tells ho...

The author tells the history of the Freedman's Savings Bank, how it grew much too quickly, why it failed and the impact on Black America. The end o...

A Spectator Book of the Year “Brilliant, ambitious, and often surprising. A remarkable contribution to the current global debate about empire.” —Wi...

A deeply researched account of the life and legacy of the man who defined the profession of private eye Allan Pinkerton, the world's most famous p...

A definitive history of the United States’ recovery from the Great Depression—and the New Deal's true part in it. FDR’s New Deal has long enjoyed a...

After a tumultuous beginning, the Malnati family turned a small business headed for bankruptcy into the pizzerias that became Chicagoland’s most ic...

For over 130 years, Imperial Oil dominated Canada's oil industry. Their 1947 discovery of crude oil in Leduc, Alberta transformed the industry and ...

In 1988 several white managers of the Shoney’s restaurant chain protested against the company’s discriminatory hiring practices, including an order...

This book’s predecessor, The Grapevine of the Black South, emphasized the owners of the Atlanta Daily World and its operation of the Scott Newspape...