1A.  Theory and Reality

Chair/Discussant: Kenneth Weiher

1. " On the Role of Economic History in the Convergence Debate"  Michael Brandl, University of  Texas at Austin

2. "The Visible Hand: The Economics of Alfred Chandler"  Don Mathews, Coastal Georgia Community College

3. "The Visible Hand in the Antebellum South:  Southern Railroad Management, 1840-1860" Steven G. Collins, St. Louis Community College

1B. Women and Productive  Industry

Chair/Discussant: Stephanie Cole

1. "Hired Women's Work in a Colonial Slave Economy: The Northern Chesapeake, 1670-1800" Christine Daniels, Michigan State University

2. "Work of Her Self: Women and Commercial Production in the Eighteenth Century Mid-Atlantic"  Michael V. Kennedy, Michigan State University

3. "A Daily Concern: Clothing Production in the Home, 1832-1855"  Sarah W. LeCount, Museum of Cape Fear Complex

1C. Nuts, Preachers, and Towels: Changing Markets

Chair/Discussant: Jocelyn Wills

1. " Southern Pecan Shelling Company: A Window on Depression-Era San Antonio"  Roger C. Barnes and James Donovon

2. "The Religious Economy of Texas: A Historical Perspective"  Stephen E. Lile, Western Kentucky University

SESSION TWO: 11A.M.-12:30 p.m.

Chair/Discussant: Keith L. Bryant, Jr.

1. " Intelligent Mechanics and Useful Operatives: Labor in Prattville, Alabama, 1840 to 1860"  Curt Evans, Northpoint, Alabama 35473

2. "An upward Curve of Interest: Southern Women, National Presses, and the Civil War Novel, 1882-1973" Sarah Gardner, Mercer University

2B.  Capitalism: Variations on a Theme

Chair/Discussant: Philip R. Smith

1. "Homes for the People: The Savings and Loan Industry and Progressive Reform"

Chair/Discussant: Gene Smiley

1. "British Policy on Industrial Efficiency in the 1960s: New Agendas or Old Panaceas?"  Jim Tomlinson, Brunel University

2. "Norwegian Industry and European Economic Integration, 1945-1960" Kai Pederson, Universidad del Sagrego Corazon, PR

3. "A Tempest in a Bottle: Nationalism and the Origins of the Protection of Commercial Property in Modern Europe"  Kolleen M. Guy, University of Texas at San Antonio

Friday, April 9, 1999

SESSION THREE: 9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

3A.   Entrepreneurship and Stewardship in Early Modern Europe

Chair/Discussant: Gilbert Mathis

1. "Tuscan Entrepreneurs in the Kingdom of Naples in the Sixteenth Century"  Antonio Calabria, University of Texas at San Antonio

2. "The Tricks of the Accounting System in the Balance Sheets of Great Estates in Western Europe in Early Modern Times"  Fiorenzo Landi, Universita di Bologna

3B.  Ships, Bananas, and Managers - Varieties of Empire

Chair/Discussant:  Richard Keehn

1. "The Olympia: Empire by Default and Hope at the Foot"  Edward C. Koziara and Chiou-Shuang Yan, Drexel University

2. "Some Very 'Secular Pilgrimages':  Professional Managerial Class Formation and US-Chilean Exchange in Business Education, 1955-1965" Brian Finnegan, George Washington University

3C.  Flying Squadrons, Words, and Dust: Rickenbacker's Racing, Telegraphic Technology, and Rough Roads

Chair/Discussant: Douglas Steeples, Mercer University

1. "Eddie Rickenbacker: Racetrack  Entrepreneur" W. David Lewis, Auburn University

2. "Sequential Technical Change: the Telegraph, Arc Light, and Incandescent Lamp" Laurence J. Malone, Hartwick College

3. "Earth Roads are Easy"  David O. Whitten, Auburn University 

SESSION FOUR: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

4A.  The Gambling of Business and the Business of Gambling

Chair/Discussant:  David O. Whitten

1. "Ponzi Will Never Die: Jack Bennett and the Glorious Saga of New Era Philanthropy"  Thomas R. Winpenny, Elizabethtown College

2. "An Economic Miracle: The Mississippi Band of Choctaws"

3. "Gambling on Foreign Markets: The Expansion of Whirlpool, 1950 - 19602"  Malcolm Russell, Andrews University

4B.  Labor Movements Abroad

Chair/Discussant:  Larry Malone

1. "The Origins of the Labor Movement in Modern Greece: an Investigation into Foreign and Domestic Factors"

2. "Cooperation and Conflict: 'The Amalgamated society of Engineers and the Engineering Employers' Federation in the Strike of 1917"  James W. Stitt, High Point University

4C. Defining Public Policy and the Public Interest

Chair/Discussant:  James C. Johnson

1. "The Commercial and Fiscal Policy of William Livingston"  Peter S. Genovese, Bowling Green State University

2. "A Court Divided: Harlan Fiske Stone, Judicial Review, and Administrative Regulations of the Economy, 1941 to 1946"  Harvey Gresham Hudspeth, Mississippi Valley State University

3. "The Wabash Receivership and the Public Interest origins of Corporate Reorganization" Bradley Hansen, Mary Washington College

SESSION FIVE: 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

5A.   Business Ethics in the Third Reich

Chair/Discussant: Shelley Baranowsky

1. "The Ethical Challenge of Nazism: Industrialists and Bankers in Nazi Germany"  Christopher Kopper, Universität Göttingen (Visiting, University of Minnesota)

2. "A Public Enterprise in the Service of Racial Discrimination and Mass Murder: The Deutsche Reichsbahn -- (German National Railway) and the Holocaust"  Alfred C. Mierzejewski, Athens State University

3. "IG Auschwitz: German Big Business and the Exploitation of Slave Labor"  Jospeh White, Georgia State University

5B.   Farmers, Market, and Elites in Nineteenth Century America

Chair/Discussant: Malcolm Russell

1. ""Agricultural Middlemen in the Nineteenth Century Midwest:  Preliminary Results"  Mary Eschelbach Hansen, Knox College

2. "Farmers' Adaptations to Markets in Nineteenth Century New York" Thomas Wermuth, Marist College

5C.   Developing Midwestern Cities

Chair/Discussant: Sarah Gardner

1. ""Entrepreneurial Success and the quest for Graft and Glory: James J. Hill versus William D. Washburn"  Jocelyn Wills, Texas A&M University

2. "Reversals in Industrial Fortune: A Tale of the Fox Cities"  Ralph O. Gunderson, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Saturday, April 10, 1999

SESSION SIX: 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

6A.  Defining Public Policy

Chair/Discussant: Thomas R. Winpenny

1. "Herbert Hoover, Great Britain, and the Rubber Controversy, 1923 - 1926" Silvano A. Wueschner, William Penn College

2. "Environmental Issue Definitions in Congress: The Resilience of Economic Concerns" Layne Hoppe, Texas Lutheran University

3. "Stock Market Speculation and the Federal Reserve Policy: Are There Lessons From History?" David A. Zalewski, Providence College

6B.   Personnel Policy Issues

Chair/Discussant: Michael Namorato

1. "The Triumph of personnel Management: Contesting Corporate Motherhood and the Corporate Welfare System"  Nikki Mandel, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater

2. "Did Henry Ford Mean to Pay Efficiency Wages?"  Jason Taylor, University of Virginia

3. "The Boss Becomes a Manager: Executive Authority in Business and City Government, 1880-1925" Robert Burnham, Macon State University

6C.   The Business of Publishing

Chair/Discussant: Allen Bures 

1. "The Business Practices of the Frontier Editor: Indiana in the Early Nineteenth Century"  John W. Miller, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma

2. "Of the Book But Not by the Book: New York Jews Publish High and Low" Charles Dellheim, Arizona State University

3. "Shifting Technologies: The Curious Case of the FAX Machine"  Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University

SESSION SEVEN: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

7A.   Government and Business: Two Venues

Chair/Discussant: Michael Smith

1. "The Canadian Political Business Cycle" Barbara Libby, Niagara University

2. "Milton Friedman and the British Conservative Party: A Case of Monetarism Applied? Michael J. Oliver, University of Sunderland - St. Peter's Campus

7B.   Mixing Oil and Aviation

Chair/Discussant: Roger Olien

1. "The Americanization of Shell Oil" R. Tyler Priest, History International, Houston

2. "The 'Russification' of Amoco" Joe Pratt, University of Houston

3. "The Man Without a Country: Lowell Yerex, His Airline, and US Policy Concerning International Commercial Aviation, 1939-45" Erik Benson, University of Georgia

7C.   Considering Asia - Catholicism, Competition, and Companies

Chair/Discussant: Charles Dellheim

1. "Economic Development Rooted in Catholic Social teaching: Fr. William Christinsen's Institute for Integrated Rural Development in Bangladesh" Larry Hufford, St. Mary's University

2. "The US-Japan Trade Relations Between 1985 and 1995: A Competitive Analysis"  Muhammed Ansari, Athabasca University; Carl H. Tong and Allen L. Bures, Radford University

3. "Trading Companies in Japan's Economic Development: Reducing Transition Costs Through Economies of Scale and Scope" Jennifer Frankl, Williams College