Howell John Harris

Biographic Data

ID281342
NAMEHowell John Harris
GIVEN NAMESHowell John
FAMILY NAMEHarris
SIGNATUREHARRIS H J
AFFILIATIONSDurham University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX2

  • Vinel symposium

    Howell John Harris, Howell HarrisARTICLELabor History2018References: 2

  • Labor History symposium

    Cynthia Pearson, Chad Pearson et al.ARTICLELabor History2012

  • Coping with Competition

    Open AccessHowell John Harris, Howell HarrisARTICLEThe Business History Review2012Cited by: 2References: 19

    This article examines the attempts of several generations of manufacturers of cooking and heating appliances to manage competition in their very unconcentrated industry. They started with overt price-fixing, which soon failed, then moved on to a variety of more effective techniques—particularly joint regulation with the aid of a strong craft union, and the adoption of uniform cost-accounting and price-setting systems. The article illuminates the …

  • “The Stove Trade Needs Change Continually”

    Howell John HarrisARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio2009

    Cast‐iron stoves for heating and cooking became ubiquitous features of the American home by the middle of the nineteenth century and remained an important domestic technology into the early twentieth. Their makers invested a great deal of effort into the design of their goods, whose consumers expected stoves to be both visually attractive and useful. There was an enormous variety of stove models and increasingly rapid superficial change but also …

  • Between Convergence and Exceptionalism

    Howell John Harris, Howell HarrisARTICLELabor History2007Cited by: 1References: 13

    Between the late 1860s and the aftermath of the First World War, American discourse about the ‘labor problem’—relations among workers, unions, employers, and the state—was permeated by comparisons. Reformers looked especially toward Britain, the first industrial nation, for clues about how to build an industrial relations system. This article explores how three generations of American employers reflected on what Britain's experience with relative…

  • America transformed

    Open AccessHowell John HarrisARTICLEThe Economic History Review2007

  • Old Dominion Industrial Commonwealth

    Open AccessHowell John HarrisARTICLEHistory2006

  • If the workers took a notion

    Open AccessHowell John HarrisARTICLEThe Economic History Review2006

  • Constant Turmoil

    Howell John Harris, Mary H BlewettARTICLEJournal of American History2002

    Mary H. Blewett, well established as a historian of labor and gender in New England history, has written a large book that continues her career-long exploration of these themes. She herself calls it, I presume affectionately, “the monster.” The book weighs in at about 1.1 kilograms, or 21⁄2 pounds, and is 521 densely packed pages long, including 80 pages of endnotes and an index. There are probably nearer a quarter of a million than two hundred t…

  • Manufacturing Rationality

    Howell John HarrisARTICLETechnology and Culture2001

  • Bloodless Victories

    Sanford M Jacoby, Howell John HarrisARTICLEJournal of American History2001

  • The Rocky Road to Mass Production

    Open AccessHowell John Harris, Harry HarrisARTICLEEnterprise & Society2000Cited by: 1References: 8

    This article is a pioneering exploration of technological change in the U.S. foundry industry from the period of its most dramatic growth through its interwar stagnation and decline. Not only does it describe key changes in the mechanization and reorganization of manufacturing processes that helped transform parts of the industry into sites of classic “Fordist” mass production, but it also explains why the impact of these changes was so slow and …

  • Workers' Paradox

    Howell John Harris, Ruth O’brien et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1999

    Journal Article Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886–1935. By Ruth O'Brien. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi, 313 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2430-5. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4737-2.) Get access Howell John Harris Howell John Harris University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vol…

  • Big Business and the Wealth of Nations

    Howell John Harris, Alfred D Chandler et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1999

    Journal Article Big Business and the Wealth of Nations. Ed. by Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Franco Amatori, and Takashi Hikino. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xii, 575 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-521-48123-6.) Get access Howell John Harris Howell John Harris University of Durham, Durham, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1663–1664, ht…

  • Interwar American Histories

    Open AccessHowell John HarrisARTICLEThe Historical Journal1999

    Purchasing power: consumer organizing, gender, and the Seattle labor movement, 1919–1929 . By Dana Frank. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xii+349. ISBN 0-521-38367-6. £50.00. Paperback 0-521-46714-4. £16.95. New Deals: business, labor, and politics in America, 1920–1935 . By Colin Gordon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xii+329. ISBN 0-521-45122-1. £40.00. Paperback 0-521-45755-6. £15.95. The long war: the intellec…

  • Industrial Democracy in America. The Ambiguous Promise

    Open AccessNelson Lichtenstein, Howell John HarrisARTICLECapital & Class1998

    Foreword Michael J. Lacey 1. Introduction 2. Industrial democracy or democracy in industry? 3. Industrial democracy and liberal capitalism, 1890-1925 4. 'An American Feeling' 5. From Commons to Dunlop 6. Great expectations 7. Wartime labor regulation 8. Workplace contractualism 9. Pacific ties 10. Industrial relations mythand shop-floor reality 11. Epilogue

  • Industrial Democracy in America

    Holly J Mccammon, Nelson Lichtenstein et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1994

  • Industrial Democracy in America

    Richard Hyman, Nelson Lichtenstein et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1994Cited by: 7

  • Three Cheers for the Unemployed

    Howell John Harris, Udo SautterARTICLEThe Economic History Review1994

  • Durable goods

    Howell John HarrisARTICLELabor History1993References: 3

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsHowell John HarrisHarris teaches History at the Univ. of Durham

  • Forging the Military-Industrial Complex

    Howell John Harris, Gregory HooksARTICLEThe Economic History Review1993

  • Making a New Deal

    Howell John Harris, Lizabeth CohenARTICLEThe Economic History Review1992

  • Working-Class Americanism

    Howell John Harris, Gary GerstleARTICLEThe Economic History Review1990

  • The Master Craftsman

    Howell John HarrisARTICLELabor History1989Cited by: 1

  • American Rubber Workers and Organized Labor, 1900-1941

    Howell John Harris, Daniel NelsonARTICLEThe Economic History Review1989