Driving and facilitating globalization: Multinational corporations in the long 19th century - Detailseite

The emerging multinational corporation played a crucial role in driving and facilitating 19^th century globalization. Firms like Siemens, General Electric and the Singer Manufacturing Company provided globalization’s infrastructural backbone, they organized international trade, knowledge transfer and they shaped consumption practices. This seminar will take a close look at the multinational corporations’ role in shaping globalization in the long 19^th century prior to World War I.

The seminar’s first part will be devoted to theoretical and methodological basics regarding business and economic history. In the second part, students will develop case studies on specific corporations that may deal with a wide range of analytical foci such as business and labor, business and gender, business and kinship, business and trade, business and migration, business and technology.

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Jones, Geoffrey, and Jonathan Zeitlin, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Business History. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Jones, Geoffrey. Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

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