Kenneth Lipartito
Biographic Data
| ID | 611640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Lipartito |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Lipartito |
| SIGNATURE | LIPARTITO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2161-8673 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Capitalism’s Wild Ride
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Surveillance Capitalism: Origins, History, Consequences
This article investigates the early history and recent development of what is now termed surveillance capitalism. It argues that an underappreciated aspect of the surveillance of people and intensive data collection is a regularization of behavior that attempts to erase uncertainty. This process has been ongoing for more than a century, but its expansion through increasingly sophisticated digital technology and the widespread adoption of data gat…
New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State
Journal Article New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State Get access New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State. By William J Novak. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022. 373 pp. $45.00.) Kenneth Lipartito Kenneth Lipartito Florida International University, Miami, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 4, March 2024, Pages 7…
Surveillance Capitalism in America
A feeling for history
Thomas Piketty argues that economists need to more seriously engage with history to understand inequality. In his two books on capitalism, Piketty does just that. But what type of history? This essay argues that Piketty, following the example of the Annales School and Braudel's The Mediterranean , has produced a powerful “descriptive” history, a still underappreciated form of work that is often incorrectly contrasted with analytical history. Pike…
Capitalism's Hidden Worlds
Capitalism's Hidden Worlds examines economic activities that occur in the concealed corners of the formal economy. Challenging common conceptions of capitalism as a system of transparent, open markets, essays reveal how capitalism depends upon, adapts to, and gains legitimacy from activities that occur outside the measured and the seen.
The Ontology of Economic Things
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Carl Benedikt Frey. The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
Technology: friend or foe of the worker? Both, says Carl Benedikt Frey in The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation, a historical study of technology and employment. For many centuries, technology did not replace workers so much as enhance capabilities. Galileo’s telescope gave humans access to the stars and also stimulated an optics industry. Even the printing press, it seems, did not render scribes obsolete, as the…
Offshoring, outsourcing and global production networks in historical context
Offshoring, outsourcing and global production networks in historical context
La délocalisation des fabrications implique la production dans des sites à l’étranger de biens à vendre sur le marché intérieur. Elle diffère donc à la fois du commerce extérieur et de l’investissement direct à l’étranger. Elle s’est développée dans les années 1950 et 1960, même si ses origines remontent aux plantations européennes outremer et aux avant-postes commerciaux des débuts des temps modernes. Dans le passé la production à l’étranger imp…
Reassembling the Economic: New Departures in Historical Materialism
Recent writing in economic and business history is reexamining major transformations in world history—industrialization, capitalism, the global economy. This new literature avoids the structural determinism of old with much greater sensitivity to politics, culture, and social institutions. To a lesser degree it bridges the gap between social science–type history, often written by those trained in economics departments, and the more narrative styl…
Connecting the Cultural and the Material in Business History
By taking note of new developments in economic theory and cultural theory, business historians have the opportunity to lead a reintegration of mentality and materiality in the study of history. This task will require rethinking the field’s traditional approach to strategy, structure, organization, and culture. An emerging literature of practice theory and the shift from a linguistic to a practice based model of culture offer to business historian…
Mediating Reputation: Credit Reporting Systems in American History
Examining the development of credit reporting in the United States, this article shows how new, formal methods of assessment of risk and trustworthiness came to mediate business reputations in the credit market over the past century and a half. It focuses on the conflicts over reputation provoked by the new means of assessment and how those conflicts were controlled through organizational procedures and routines as new methodologies were introduc…
S heldon G aron . Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves
Savings equals income minus consumption. That is one of the simplest equations in economics. But what happens when a historian studies saving through the lens of comparative politics and culture? The story then becomes considerably more complicated, and more interesting. By looking at how societies over time and across oceans have saved, and how they have thought about saving, Sheldon Garon sheds new light on the history of capitalism and the mod…
The Narrative and the Algorithm: Genres of Credit Reporting from the Nineteenth Century to Today
Regulation reconsidered: The telephone industry since 1975
Cet article remet en cause la présentation habituelle de la déréglementation et des privatisations dans les télécommunications. Il montre que ces changements structurels sont advenus pour des raisons diverses dans des pays différents, et qu’ils n’ont pas répondu à une logique inéluctable des technologies ou des marchés. D’une part, dans plusieurs nations, les gouvernements ont été capables de mener à bien une modernisation substantielle de leurs …
The Future of Alfred Chandler
One could make a career of throwing darts at the work of Alfred Chandler. I don't mean just criticizing him. You could take the pages of Chandler's books, paste them up on a wall, and start throwing. Almost everywhere a point struck would be a little gem of business history to draw your interest
Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century (review)
Reviewed by Kenneth Lipartito Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century. By JoAnne Yates. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. x+351. $49.95. With millions of policies to track and a vast assortment of demographic data to process, insurance companies are among the most intensive business users of information. JoAnne Yates explores their adoption of information technology, mostly mainfr…
Constructing Corporate America: History, Politics, Culture
Challenging assumptions about the history and performance of the business corporation in the United States, this book seeks to explain more fully this crucial institution of capitalism. The authors draw on theoretical insights from economics, law, political science, and cultural studies to show the multiple ways in which corporations have shaped American society, culture, and politics over the past two centuries. They reject assertions that the c…
Constructing corporate America: History, Politics, Culture
This collection of cutting-edge research reviews the evolution of the American corporation, the domination trends in the way it has been studied, and at the same time introduces some new perspectives on the historical trajectory of the business organization as a social institution.
Picturephone and the Information Age: The Social Meaning of Failure
One of the proudest achievements of Bell Telephone Laboratories in the post World War II era, the video telephone system Picturephone ended its brief life as the Labs' biggest flop. Accounts have attempted to explain this "failure" in a variety of ways. This article proposes a new approach that questions the usefulness of the categories success and failure, and instead considers Picturephone as part of a technological narrative that directed both…
Risk, Uncertainty, and Rational Action (review)
"It has been suggested that risk is the quintessential characteristic of the modern world" (p. 7), states the foreword to this book. Accumulating technological and environmental disasters suggest this may be true, but, in any case, Risk, Uncertainty, and Rational Action is a good place to start one's investigation of risk and modern society. It provides a balanced but unremitting critique of a key concept underlying risk: the "rational actor" par…
The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s
The big news on the southern economy is, after decades of false starts, depressed hopes, and unchanging stagnation, the region is nearly at parity with the rest of the nation. Some might still see an old South lurking in the corners of this new one. Wages are generally lower and unions are not welcomed below the MasonDixon line. Environmentalism places a dismal third, at best, behind hunting and fishing when it comes to nature. But the South of J…
Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925 (review)
Reviewed by: Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865–1925 * Kenneth Lipartito (bio) Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865–1925. By Philip Scranton. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv+415; illustrations, figures, tables, notes/references, index. $39.50. As global changes over the past twenty-five years have brought down old stalwarts of American busines…
The Historian in the Rose Garden
Fifteen years ago, Richard Neustadt and Ernest R. May wrote a series of historical case studies that they hoped would lead to "working procedures to get more history used better on the job by busy people preoccupied with daily decisions . . . of management." With the publication of their book, Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers, history boldly launched itself into the field of policy studies, bidding to take its place with …
Connecting the Cultural and the Material in Business History
By taking note of new developments in economic theory and cultural theory, business historians have the opportunity to lead a reintegration of mentality and materiality in the study of history. This task will require rethinking the field’s traditional approach to strategy, structure, organization, and culture. An emerging literature of practice theory and the shift from a linguistic to a practice based model of culture offer to business historian…
The New York Cotton Exchange and the Development of the Cotton Futures Market
The development of a national market was one of the key features of the nineteenth-century economy. In this process, innumerable institutions played a role, some large and well-known, others neither so large, nor quite so well-known, at least to the public at large. One such organization was the New York Cotton Exchange. It evolved in the aftermath of the Civil War, and over the years grew from an informal, even ad hoc organization into a formali…
When Women Were Switches: Technology, Work, and Gender in the Telephone Industry, 1890–1920
Journal Article When Women Were Switches: Technology, Work, and Gender in the Telephone Industry, 1890–1920 Get access Kenneth Lipartito Kenneth Lipartito Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 99, Issue 4, October 1994, Pages 1075–1111, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/99.4.1075 Published: 01 October 1994
New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State
Journal Article New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State Get access New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State. By William J Novak. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022. 373 pp. $45.00.) Kenneth Lipartito Kenneth Lipartito Florida International University, Miami, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 4, March 2024, Pages 7…
Eisenhower and the Management of Prosperity
Journal Article Eisenhower and the Management of Prosperity. By John W. Sloan. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991. viii + 191 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-7006-0489-8.) Get access Kenneth Lipartito Kenneth Lipartito Harvard Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 733–734, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080181 Published: 01 September 19…
What Have Lawyers Done For American Business? The Case of Baker & Botts of Houston
Although lawyers made crucial contributions to the development of business, scholars have said little about their role. As the following article explains, lawyers fought restrictions on business growth, worked to make laws uniform, and helped to establish legal rules in the areas of corporate reorganization, finance, and regulation. Pioneering a new type of organization—the large firm—they moved beyond the realm of legal doctrine and acquired the…
Picturephone and the Information Age: The Social Meaning of Failure
One of the proudest achievements of Bell Telephone Laboratories in the post World War II era, the video telephone system Picturephone ended its brief life as the Labs' biggest flop. Accounts have attempted to explain this "failure" in a variety of ways. This article proposes a new approach that questions the usefulness of the categories success and failure, and instead considers Picturephone as part of a technological narrative that directed both…
The Ontology of Economic Things
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Mediating Reputation: Credit Reporting Systems in American History
Examining the development of credit reporting in the United States, this article shows how new, formal methods of assessment of risk and trustworthiness came to mediate business reputations in the credit market over the past century and a half. It focuses on the conflicts over reputation provoked by the new means of assessment and how those conflicts were controlled through organizational procedures and routines as new methodologies were introduc…
The Future of Alfred Chandler
One could make a career of throwing darts at the work of Alfred Chandler. I don't mean just criticizing him. You could take the pages of Chandler's books, paste them up on a wall, and start throwing. Almost everywhere a point struck would be a little gem of business history to draw your interest
System Building at the Margin: The Problem of Public Choice in the Telephone Industry
This article considers whether natural monopoly conditions or AT'T's market power was responsible for the formation of a single, standardized network in the United States telephone industry. It shows that AT&T was able to move the industry towards a single system under its management through a strategy of competition and compromise with competitors. The article also examines the impact of AT's actions on state regulators, concluding that public o…
The Telephone in the South: A Comparative Analysis, 1877–1920
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The Narrative and the Algorithm: Genres of Credit Reporting from the Nineteenth Century to Today
The New York Cotton Exchange and the Development of the Cotton Futures Market
The development of a national market was one of the key features of the nineteenth-century economy. In this process, innumerable institutions played a role, some large and well-known, others neither so large, nor quite so well-known, at least to the public at large. One such organization was the New York Cotton Exchange. It evolved in the aftermath of the Civil War, and over the years grew from an informal, even ad hoc organization into a formali…
The Telephone in the South: A Comparative Analysis, 1877–1920
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The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929-1930
System Building at the Margin: The Problem of Public Choice in the Telephone Industry
This article considers whether natural monopoly conditions or AT'T's market power was responsible for the formation of a single, standardized network in the United States telephone industry. It shows that AT&T was able to move the industry towards a single system under its management through a strategy of competition and compromise with competitors. The article also examines the impact of AT's actions on state regulators, concluding that public o…
What Have Lawyers Done For American Business? The Case of Baker & Botts of Houston
Although lawyers made crucial contributions to the development of business, scholars have said little about their role. As the following article explains, lawyers fought restrictions on business growth, worked to make laws uniform, and helped to establish legal rules in the areas of corporate reorganization, finance, and regulation. Pioneering a new type of organization—the large firm—they moved beyond the realm of legal doctrine and acquired the…
Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management
The Bell System and Regional Business: The Telephone in the South, 1877-1920. The Johns Hopkins/ at & T Series in Telephone History
The Bell System and Regional Business: The Telephone in the South, 1877-1920
Journal Article The Bell System and Regional Business: The Telephone in the South, 1877–1920. By Kenneth Lipartito. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. xviii + 283 pp. $29.50.) Get access Daniel Pope Daniel Pope University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1375–1376, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078333 Published: 01 March …
The Bell System and Regional Business: The Telephone in the South, 1877-1920
Eisenhower and the Management of Prosperity
Journal Article Eisenhower and the Management of Prosperity. By John W. Sloan. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991. viii + 191 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-7006-0489-8.) Get access Kenneth Lipartito Kenneth Lipartito Harvard Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 733–734, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080181 Published: 01 September 19…
Baker & Botts in the Development of Modern Houston
Baker & Botts in the Development of Modern Houston
Journal Article Baker & Botts in the Development of Modern Houston. By Kenneth Lipartito and Joseph Pratt. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. xiv + 253 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-292-70782-7.) Get access Blaine A. Brownell Blaine A. Brownell University of North Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Page 1646, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080308 Publis…
When Women Were Switches: Technology, Work, and Gender in the Telephone Industry, 1890–1920
Journal Article When Women Were Switches: Technology, Work, and Gender in the Telephone Industry, 1890–1920 Get access Kenneth Lipartito Kenneth Lipartito Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 99, Issue 4, October 1994, Pages 1075–1111, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/99.4.1075 Published: 01 October 1994
Unfinished Business: The Railroad in American Life
Coordination and Information: Historical Perspectives on the Organization of Enterprise ed. by Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff
998 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Rowley follows this theme throughout the book, contending that Newlands’s connection to the Sharon family made his political ac ceptance in Nevada difficult. His legal defense of the Sharon estate following his father-in-law’s death earned him a reputation as a de fender of private wealth and privilege, a difficult notion for many Nevadans to dismiss. Yet despite Rowley’s repeated description of Nevada as…
Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions have Shaped North American Growth
Coordination and Information: Historical Perspectives on the Organization of Enterprise
Industrial Research and Innovation in Business (review)
Reviewed by: Industrial Research and Innovation in Business * Kenneth Lipartito (bio) Industrial Research and Innovation in Business. Edited by D. E. H. Edgerton. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1996. Pp. 688; figures, tables, notes. Industrial research remains an important topic for historians, economists, and sociologists of knowledge. David Edgerton brings together a wide range of articles from various disciplines on this topic, focusing especially …
Industrial Research and Innovation in Business
Theoretical perspectives from coal tar dyes to IG Farbenindustrie the research laboratory and the US corporate economy international and comparative studies the not-so-peculiar British case the case of Japanese industrial research
Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past
Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925 (review)
Reviewed by: Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865–1925 * Kenneth Lipartito (bio) Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865–1925. By Philip Scranton. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv+415; illustrations, figures, tables, notes/references, index. $39.50. As global changes over the past twenty-five years have brought down old stalwarts of American busines…
The Historian in the Rose Garden
Fifteen years ago, Richard Neustadt and Ernest R. May wrote a series of historical case studies that they hoped would lead to "working procedures to get more history used better on the job by busy people preoccupied with daily decisions . . . of management." With the publication of their book, Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers, history boldly launched itself into the field of policy studies, bidding to take its place with …
Risk, Uncertainty, and Rational Action (review)
"It has been suggested that risk is the quintessential characteristic of the modern world" (p. 7), states the foreword to this book. Accumulating technological and environmental disasters suggest this may be true, but, in any case, Risk, Uncertainty, and Rational Action is a good place to start one's investigation of risk and modern society. It provides a balanced but unremitting critique of a key concept underlying risk: the "rational actor" par…
The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s
The big news on the southern economy is, after decades of false starts, depressed hopes, and unchanging stagnation, the region is nearly at parity with the rest of the nation. Some might still see an old South lurking in the corners of this new one. Wages are generally lower and unions are not welcomed below the MasonDixon line. Environmentalism places a dismal third, at best, behind hunting and fishing when it comes to nature. But the South of J…
Picturephone and the Information Age: The Social Meaning of Failure
One of the proudest achievements of Bell Telephone Laboratories in the post World War II era, the video telephone system Picturephone ended its brief life as the Labs' biggest flop. Accounts have attempted to explain this "failure" in a variety of ways. This article proposes a new approach that questions the usefulness of the categories success and failure, and instead considers Picturephone as part of a technological narrative that directed both…
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