We're not going to miss out on an opportunity to re-up Hallie Lieberman's classic article, "Selling Sex Toys: Marketing and the Meaning of Vibrators in Early Twentieth-Century America."

Selling Sex Toys: Marketing and the Meaning of Vibrators in Early Twentieth-Century America | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core

Selling Sex Toys: Marketing and the Meaning of Vibrators in Early Twentieth-Century America - Volume 17 Issue 2

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Coreen McGuire@coreenanne.bsky.social · yesterday

Vibrators! Telephones! Embodied knowledge! Hand transplants! Gender historiography!

Attention to gender in business history has tended to focus on reclaiming the neglected business historical role of women, with much less attention to men and masculinities (there are important exceptions, ofc), so we are delighted to publish Claire Wright's new essay on ...

Bringing you two new, very different papers from the Netherlands. First, Ronny Reshev and coauthors bring us "Legitimacy of Communal Institutions in the Early Modern Times: The Ashkenazi Meat Hall of Amsterdam." Open Access and just a click or two away.

Here at @entandsoc.bsky.social we are delighted to bring our readers two fine new articles. First up, from Juan A. Rubio-Mondéjar and coauthors, "The Renewal of the Corporate Elite in Spain (1920–2020)," using social network analysis and prosopography to explore renewal of Spanish corporate elites.

How do Chilean business elites remember the Unidad Popular government (1970–1973) & how do these memories shape their current political culture? Find answers in Memory and Political Culture Across Generations of Chilean Economic Elites, a great new OA essay from Alejandro Osorio-Rauld & co-authors

Further, also announced today, the death of Alan Greenspan, head of the Federal Reserve (1987 to 2006), at age 100

Alan Greenspan obituary

American economist and long-serving head of the Federal Reserve widely praised for the US boom whose reputation was re-evaluated in the wake of the 2008 crash

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When it comes to the music business, they didn't come much bigger than Clive Davis. His death at the age of 94 has been announced today.

Clive Davis: music industry executive who signed Whitney Houston and Bruce Springsteen dies aged 94

Davis, who discovered many of the defining musicians of the 20th century and helmed major record labels, said he ‘never’ tired of the music business

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We have a brace of very contrasting but equally fascinating new articles for you today. First, John D'Amico with "Business Organization in Early Modern Japan," exploring how merchants in early modern Japan created large-scale enterprises in the absence of formal legal institutions. Open Access here

Get the latest! "Micropolitics & Economic Power: Corporate Relocation in the Twilight of the British Empire" by Kondwani Ngoma, exploring corporate relocations as politically charged processes embedded in imperial decline & the reconfiguration of ... global capital. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A fascinating and important call from our friends at @businesshistory.bsky.social

Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal@businesshistory.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Editors Himadri Roy Chaudhuri, Mark Tadajewski, Andrew Perchard, Zoi Pittaki 🚀 #SpecialIssue #CFP in @routledgeeditor.bsky.social #bizhis ╰┈➤Indigenous #Entrepreneurship under #Colonialism and Beyond lnkd.in/gvYvsGAw @businesshistoryc.bsky.social @uoysbs.bsky.social @aomconnect.bsky.social

We really, really don't have favourites. But we are very, very excited about publishing this fantastic essay, "In the Silence of the Smokestack. Post-Disaster Public Relations in the French Oil Industry (1964–1971)" - from Renaud Bécot. #envhist #envirohist #bizhist www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Don't say you've nothing to read this fine Saturday! Here's another triple decker of fantastic new business research, from France, to Spain, Australia, from the medieval to the modern. Truly something for everyone. First up is ...

We have a true cornucopia of the finest business historical research for you today at @entandsoc.bsky.social: from the cool capitalism of Canadian craft brewing to land reform in Tsarist Russia, from canning Malayan pineapples to funding London Underground projects through the C20th! More below

But we really don't have favourites, and "Offshore Creations: The Invention of International Ship Registries in the 1980s" by Jesper Lund Jørstian is another brilliant new paper. Get it here with a single click! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

As an editor, I feel like I shouldn't have favourites, but I loved working with Dr. Nicholas Gaffney on his article "A Jazz Salute to Freedom: Amplifying Civil Rights Activism through Corporate Allyship during the early 1960s." More details in the next post. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Michael Borsk's fascinating new article, "Accounting for Partridge: Food and Value in the Eighteenth-Century Hudson’s Bay Company," recounts the strange entanglement of partridge and accounting at the Hudson Bay Company. Only to be found in @entandsoc.bsky.social! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Indeed! Very many congratulations to Sarah and Katherine!

Business History Conference@businesshistoryc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Congrats to Sarah Elvins and @historian-kparkin.bsky.social — 2026 Philip Scranton Best Article Prize winners at #BHC2026! Their article on cross-border #abortion referral services @entandsoc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/eso.... Honorable mention to Robert Kaminski. #Bizhis

We love this article!

German Historical Institute Washington@ghiwashington.bsky.social · 4mo ago

His article, published in @entandsoc.bsky.social in its September 2025 issue, is available in #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

At #BHC2026 it's time for the Krooss Prize plenary session, with three fascinating dissertations from Lillian Tsay, Yuanxie Shi, and Cody Patton - @businesshistoryc.bsky.social

#BHC2026 is underway. We are waiting in lively anticipation for Session 1k: Doing Business with Animals: Livestock, Commodities and Capitalist Innovations." with Oscar Broughton, Nathan Norris, Olivia Paschal and Narusa Yamato,, chaired by @shamilto.bsky.social

Here we go! Up early for our flight to London for @businesshistoryc.bsky.social 2026! See you there.

Contemplating your journey to @businesshistoryc.bsky.social 2026 in London this weekend? @entandsoc.bsky.social has all your reading needs covered.

Enterprise and Society@entandsoc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hot off the press, we're delighted to bring you Ioan Balaban's latest essay, "Corporate Warfare: Sudameris and the Franco–Italian Banking Rivalry in South America, 1945–1960," on the postwar Franco-Italian struggle over Sudameri,, a multinational bank operating across South America. Link below

Hot off the press, we're delighted to bring you Ioan Balaban's latest essay, "Corporate Warfare: Sudameris and the Franco–Italian Banking Rivalry in South America, 1945–1960," on the postwar Franco-Italian struggle over Sudameri,, a multinational bank operating across South America. Link below

We're starting to get incredibly excited about the @businesshistoryc.bsky.social 2026 annual meeting, scheduled to begin in London in just under three weeks! Here's the program - Choices, choices choices! thebhc.org/meeting-prog...

'“Salt of the Earth:” ABF Freight and Entrepreneurial Processes in American Trucking' by Nathanael L. Mickelson is a wonderful new paper on the restructuring of the American road freight industry through the lens of ArcBest. Get it Open Access here! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our readers will likely want to check out this special issue of @jich.bsky.social on Business and Labour in German Colonialism!

Nina Kleinöder@nkleinoeder.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Out now! Check out out upcoming Special issue on Business and Labour in German Colonialism. Thanks for this great collaboration @pocobusiness.bsky.social @jzurlage.bsky.social @debneill.bsky.social Mona Rudolph Michael Rösser

Were Scottish bankers born or made? Robert Dawson Scott has the answers in "Professionalism and Presbyterianism: How Edinburgh’s Financial Elite Sustained Itself in the 20th Century," the latest publication from @entandsoc.bsky.social. Open Access, of course. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It's just a little late, but @entandsoc.bsky.social Vol.26, No.4 is now out, with a pretty breathtaking array of articles and topics, almost exclusively Open Access. There is something here you will want to read, guaranteed! resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ever wondered how the state and private enterprise come together in driving condom consumption during times of war? Anna Inez Bergman has all the answers in "The War Against Venereal Diseases: Engineering Protective Practices During World War II in Sweden." Fresh out, OA, in @entandsoc.bsky.social

There has recently been a welcome growth in work at the intersection of business history and German colonial. This very interesting essay, from @nkleinoeder.bsky.social, is the most recent addition to this emerging stream of work.

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History@jich.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New and #OpenAccess, check out 'On Site. Colonial Labour, Business and the Construction of the Swakopmund Jetty, c. 1911–1915' by Nina Kleinöder: doi.org/10.1080/0308...