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The Bosses' Union: How Employers Organized to Fight Labor before the New Deal with Vilja Hulden

In this episode Roger Horowitz interviews Vilja Hulden (University of Colorado-Boulder) about her new book, The Bosses' Union: How Employers Organized to Fight Labor before the New Deal. Her book explores how business organizations, especially the National Association of Manufacturers, sought to we…

Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America with Margot Canaday

In this episode of Hagley History Hangout Roger Horowitz interviews Margot Canaday about her remarkable book Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America that received the received 2024 Hagley Prize for the best book in business history that year. Canaday’s Queer Career’s rincipal focus is…

Analog Superpowers: Technology Theft and the National Security State with Kate Epstein

Roger Horowitz talks with Katherine Epstein about her new book Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State (University of Chicago Press, 2024). From the publisher: “A gripping history that spans law, international affairs, and top-secret technology…

Meatpacking in Minnesota: How Migration and Labor Transformed Worthington

We'd love to hear your thoughts about Minnesota Unraveled! Please fill out our survey ⁠here⁠. Driving through the rural expanse of southwestern Minnesota, there are a lot of things you might expect to see, such as corn fields, cattle, and the quaint main streets of small town America. But, if yo…

Plebian Consumers: Foreign Goods in Nineteenth-Century Colombia with Ana Maria Otero-Cleves

In this interview with Roger Horowitz, Ana Maria Otero-Cleves discusses the place of important objects in her book Plebian Consumers, especially textiles, machetes, and patent medicine. Otero-Cleves also elaborates on the crucial importance of Hagley’s Lanman and Kemp collection due to its extensiv…

Episode 4: Roger Horowitz - What Kosher Food says about the Kosher Consumer

How did Kosher come to the USA? Join us on this episode as we speak with American Food Historian, Roger Horowitz. Roger is a historian of American business, technology, and labor and an expert on the nation’s food. He currently serves as director of the Center for the History of Business, Technolo…

Credit to the Nation: Jewish Immigrant Bankers in American Finance 1873-1930 with Rebecca Kobrin

In this episode of the Hagley History Hangout, Roger Horowitz interviews Rebecca Kobrin about her new book, Credit to the Nation: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Bankers and American Finance 1873-1930. From the publisher: "What are immigrants to do when business opportunities abound in their new…

689. Here’s Why Your Hamburger Just Got So Pricey

An economist calls America’s beef industry a “miracle.” An antitrust scholar calls it “broken.” Maybe they’re both right?   SOURCES: Austin Frerick, agriculture antitrust expert, fellow at Yale University, author of Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry. Robert Hodge…

689. Here’s Why Your Hamburger Just Got So Pricey

An economist calls America’s beef industry a “miracle.” An antitrust scholar calls it “broken.” Maybe they’re both right?   SOURCES: Austin Frerick, agriculture antitrust expert, fellow at Yale University, author of Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry. Robert Hodge…

689. Here’s Why Your Hamburger Just Got So Pricey

An economist calls America’s beef industry a “miracle.” An antitrust scholar calls it “broken.” Maybe they’re both right?  SOURCES: Austin Frerick, agriculture antitrust expert, fellow at Yale University, author of Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry. Robert Hodgen,…