Articles and Chapters about the Stove Industry, 2008-2012 (directly on) & c. 2000-2007 (somewhat related)

This is the old index page from my Stove History website.  In due course I'll move the individual pages it references here, too.  Helps to explain why, after 2006, I didn't feel much need to keep writing "Research Notes" to and for myself -- by then I was getting into a position to write proper papers for academic seminars and conferences, and to turn them into publishable work.

Thus far, I've published four articles from this research, three of them quite long. They connect with, but don't repeat, one another -- at least, not too much. Through this page, you can get (a) links to the official published versions and to freely-accessible alternatives, available under the terms of my agreements with the publishers; and (b) a variety of "value-adding" extras which one can think of as like the "making of" freebies thrown in with a DVD. In the following list, the main title (in bold) links to a subpage containing other links and relevant content; the journal title (italicized) links to the official published version. The Google Scholar Citations [GSC] link, where available, indicates whether anybody has found the article interesting and/or useful yet. (Not many have, the fools!)

• “Inventing the U.S. Stove Industry, c. 1815-1875: Making and Selling the First Universal Consumer Durable,” Business History Review 82:4 (Winter 2008): 701-733 [Winner, Henrietta M. Larson Article Award, 2008]. [GSC] [Free Version]

• “Conquering Winter: U.S. Consumers and the Cast-Iron Stove,” Building Research and Information 36 (2008): 337-350; reprinted in Elizabeth Shove, Heather Chappells and Loren Lutzenhiser, eds., Comfort in a Lower Carbon Society (London: Routledge, 2010), pp. 33-46.[GSC] [Free Version]

• “'The Stove Trade Needs Change Continually': Designing the First Mass-Market Consumer Durable, c. 1810-1930,” Winterthur Portfolio 43:4 (Winter 2009): 365-406. [GSC] [Free Version]

  • "Coping With Competition: Cooperation and Collusion in the US Stove Industry, c. 1870-1930," Business History Review 86:4 (Winter 2012): 657-692. [Free Version]

There was also this work, most of it done ages before I thought I would ever write a book about stoves and the stove industry, but helping to make sure that, when I did, I wouldn't be starting from scratch:

• "Setting a Pattern, c. 1850-1900" -- Chapter 3 of the first draft of my manuscript for Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000). This didn't make it into the final version except in a drastically abbreviated form -- a single reference on p. 85 -- but it was the first thing I ever wrote about (labor relations in) the stove industry.

• "The Rocky Road to Mass Production: Change and Continuity in the U.S. Foundry Industry, 1890-1940," Enterprise and Society 1 (2000): 391-437.

• "The Spatial Mobility of Ordinary People: A Civil War Era Case," in Cornelis A. Van Minnen and Sylvia L. Hilton, eds., Nation on the Move: Mobility in American History (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2002), pp. 111-28. [This was an essay about the Iron Molders Union in its first decade, the 1860s, when the stove trade provided it with its foundation and strongest local unions.]

• “Between Convergence and Exceptionalism: Americans and the British Model of Labor Relations, c. 1867-1920,” Labor History 48 (2007): 141-73. [Winner, Labor History Best Article prize, 2007] [GSC] [Like Setting a Pattern, this dealt with the origins and significance of the pioneering collective bargaining system the Molders and the Stove Manufacturers constructed in the 1890s.]