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  • Managing Communist Enterprises: Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, 1945–1970

  • PHILIP SCRANTON
  • Journal:
    Enterprise & Society / Volume 19 / Issue 3 / September 2018
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    05 September 2018, pp. 492-537
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    September 2018

  • Business history for three generations has focused almost exclusively on capitalist firms, their managers, and their relations with markets, states, and rivals. However, enterprises on all scales also operated within communist nations “building socialism” in the wake of World War II. This article represents a first-phase exploration of business practices in three Central European states as Stalinism gave way to cycles of reform and retrenchment in the 1960s. Focusing chiefly on industrial initiatives, the study asks: How did socialist enterprises work and change across the first postwar generation, given their distinctive principles and political/economic contexts, and implicitly, what contrasts with capitalist activities are worth considering.

  • The History of Capitalism and the Eclipse of Optimism

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  • Philip Scranton
  • Journal:
    Modern American History / Volume 1 / Issue 1 / March 2018
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    22 January 2018, pp. 107-111
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  • Introduction

  • Philip Scranton
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    Enterprise & Society / Volume 10 / Issue 4 / December 2009
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    18 February 2015, pp. 609-611
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    December 2009
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  • Editor's Introduction

  • Philip Scranton
  • Journal:
    Enterprise & Society / Volume 10 / Issue 1 / March 2009
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    18 February 2015, pp. 1-2
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    March 2009
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  • European Social Science History Conference

  • Alan Draper, Philip Scranton
  • Journal:
    International Labor and Working-Class History / Volume 51 / April 1997
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    16 December 2008, pp. 148-150
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  • Beyond Chandler?

  • Philip Scranton
  • Journal:
    Enterprise & Society / Volume 9 / Issue 3 / September 2008
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    18 February 2015, pp. 426-429
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    September 2008

  • Unlike several of my colleagues whose retrospective essays are included in this special section, I did not have a personal relationship with Alfred DuPont Chandler, though during the 1980s he did invite me to present a discussion of my first book Proprietary Capitalism at his Harvard business history seminar. I also met Dr. Chandler frequently at Business History Conference meetings, where I found him ever-gracious, indifferent to criticism, and supportive of diverse projects whether allied with or tangential to his own. Thus here I offer some reflections on our discipline and its current situation, taking Chandler's publications as a point of departure.

  • The Southern Historical Association

  • Philip Scranton
  • Journal:
    International Labor and Working-Class History / Volume 56 / October 1999
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    02 April 2001, pp. 109-112

  • The Southern Historical Association's 1998 conference was held November 12–14 in Birmingham, Alabama. Consistent with long-established patterns, the conference featured panels chiefly focused on colonial-era issues: slavery, the Civil War, regional cultural and social history, and southern politics. Still, one session and several individual papers presented research in southern labor history. Reflecting the conference's location at the hub of Alabama's industrial heartland, the panel addressed coal miners' contests with organized operators, first in unionizing drives surrounding World War One and later during the long 1977–1978 United Mine Workers' strike.

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