Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 27/03/2026#BHC2026 Caroline Johnston on antistatism and the hollowing out of the institutions at the center of the organizational synthesis 020
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 27/03/2026#bhc2026 Casey Eilbert putting the history back in the historiography of the synthesis 010
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 27/03/2026#bhc2026 what happened to the organizational synthesis? Drawing a big audience in a big lecture theatre 220
Reposted by Shane HamiltonAndrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 19/03/2026My dept @ Copenhagen Business School) has an open PhD scholarship in business humanities. Do you know a potential candidate? An excellent scholar in history who would thrive in a collaborative, interdisciplinary business school setting? Please tell them to get in touch www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs...cbs.dkPhD scholarship in Business Humanities at CBSPhD scholarship in Business Humanities at the Department of Business Humanities and LawCopenhagen Business invites applications for one vacant PhD scholarship within business humanities at the Department of Business Humanities and Law (BHL). The expected start date is 1 September 2026.Firmly rooted in interdisciplinary scholarship, the business humanities research areas of the department include: 135
Reposted by Shane HamiltonDavid Chan Smith @dasmith.bsky.social · 11/03/2026#BHC 2026 is coming up! Don't forget to register by March 16 and get that ETA for the UK. Looking forward to talking about the early modern #offshore and seeing everyone in London. #bizhis #econsky #history #18thc 053
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 06/03/2026What is that orange ball in the sky above the water? 110
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 02/03/2026So pleased to have this brilliant book physically in my hand today! Many thanks to @etshermer.bsky.social for intellectual and organizational leadership on this, and fellow series editors Kim Phillips-Fein and Andrew Wender Cohen for helping usher this into print. 063
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 29/11/2025With a listening room all to myself tonight, I played Tom Waits’s “trilogy” in order on vinyl: Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, Frank’s Wild Years. It was transcendent. Would welcome suggestions for similar musical deep dives, any genre welcome. 110
Reposted by Shane HamiltonYork Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 20/08/2025🌾What can today’s policymakers + food innovators learn from Britain’s postwar Agricultural Revolution? Join us for a workshop exploring lessons from farming rapid transformation after 1940 + it's relevance for the future of food. 🔗 buff.ly/Vx6JWBE @shamilto.bsky.social @sabineclarke.bsky.social 022
Reposted by Shane HamiltonBenjamin Soskis @bensoskis.bsky.social · 27/08/2025The latest case study has just been published in the Urban Institute's History of Philanthropy initiative, supported by Open Philanthropy. It's on the farm animal welfare movement's corporate campaigns, by @shamilto.bsky.social at University of York. www.openphilanthropy.org/research/a-c...openphilanthropy.orgA case study on corporate campaigns for farm animal welfare | Open PhilanthropyIn recent decades, the farm animal welfare movement has improved conditions for hundreds of millions of animals through corporate campaigns. A new case study, commissioned by Open Philanthropy as part... 021
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 28/06/2025I just bought every vinyl I could find of Ezra Collective. Watch the Glastonbury performance if you can, they are not only amazing musicians but amazing people. 000
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Strongly disagree. I have a rubric that is carefully designed to encourage students to explore ideas independently, with clear expectations laid out for how to achieve high marks. All the questions I receive suggest that students are unfamiliar with the degree of freedom I give them. 100
Reposted by Shane HamiltonEnterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 24/05/2025We are delighted to publish this Roundtable Review of Richard Langlois' "The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise." Contributions from Alexander Field, Brian Cheffins, Laura Phillips-Sawyer, Naomi Lamoureaux & Dan Raff: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgRoundtable Review | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge CoreRoundtable Review 101
Reposted by Shane HamiltonAndrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Really excited to see this compelling Roundtable Review of Richard Langlois' "The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise" now out online at @entandsoc.bsky.social! 063
Reposted by Shane HamiltonEnterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 24/05/2025We're loving this re-skeet! 011
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 25/05/2025One of my favorite lyrics of Waits/Brennan: Come down off the cross / We could use the wood. Feels more relevant now than ever, which I suppose it always will. 000
Reposted by Shane HamiltonScott Reynolds Nelson @nelsonhist.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Radical tariff changes put the US into depression in 1819, 1893 & 1929. Hasty executive action did so in 1837. Buckle up #NationofDeadbeats 1127
Reposted by Shane HamiltonSchool for Business and Society 🏫 @uoysbs.bsky.social · 20/03/2025🍊 Why is orange juice "super weird?" Asks @philedwardsinc.bsky.social, after "stumbling across" the work of business historian, @shamilto.bsky.social, whose work on the "cold capitalism" of frozen concentrated orange juice inspired this YouTube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wSQ... #YorkResearchyoutube.comFrozen orange juice is actually super weirdYouTube video by Phil Edwards 021
Reposted by Shane HamiltonEnterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Only two days now until @businesshistoryc.bsky.social annual meeting 2025. Alas, @entandsoc.bsky.social editor @andrewpopp.bsky.social can't make it this year but the journal will be well represented by associate editors @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social, @shamilto.bsky.social, Ai Hisano & Andrea Lluch! 131
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 19/12/2024I am less worried about the cloud, more that Home Office knows exactly where I am in realtime whether I travel or not. Not that I do anything interesting other than promote basic social justice, but it is worrisome that Neo-nazis who are British by birth can avoid such surveillance. 130
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 19/12/2024“regular cycling cut the risk of death from any cause by 41%” 020
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 19/12/2024One of the best ways of extending life is available to almost all and it’s cheap: cycle commuting.” Rather liking Forbes these days. www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...forbes.com18-Year Study Of 82,297 Adults Finds Cycle Commuting Halves Chance Of Early DeathBillionaires famously want to live longer. They should jump on bicycles, not spacecraft. 121
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 19/12/2024A small contribution to support the revival of antitrust: grocerynerd.substack.com/p/grocery-up...grocerynerd.substack.comGrocery Update #39: The High Cost of Cheap Food. And The Historic Halting Of A Grocery Merger.Also: An Autumn Apple Smackdown. Because We Love Apples. 000
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 19/12/2024A little piece with Errol Schweizer (former VP of Whole Foods) on the historical significance of the blocked Kroger-Albertsons merger grocerynerd.substack.com/p/grocery-up...grocerynerd.substack.comGrocery Update #39: The High Cost of Cheap Food. And The Historic Halting Of A Grocery Merger.Also: An Autumn Apple Smackdown. Because We Love Apples. 031
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 19/12/2024I found that my love for Big Brother deepened tremendously in the process 120
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 19/12/2024It’s not stored in the cloud, it’s on the chip they secretly implant in your brain while you are putting your toiletries in the ziploc bag 120
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Yeah, as an adult with a US passport that’s exactly how it happens. Very simple. 110
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Very important and potentially exciting news on the temporary block of the Kroger-Albertsons merger. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/b...nytimes.comFederal Judge Blocks $25 Billion Kroger-Albertsons Grocery MergerThe Federal Trade Commission notched a victory in its efforts to block the supermarket merger over concerns about harm to shoppers and workers. 031
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 10/12/2024My family has no quirks. Other than their insistence on having at least two shakers of shichimi togarashi seasoning on the table at all times. 020
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Yes, much hinges on what one means by a "free market"! Which is a theme I discuss in some detail in the book, not fully covered in the podcast. 010
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Was surprised to learn Freakonomics has republished the 2019 episode, “How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War,” focused on my book, Supermarket U.S.A: Food and Power in The Cold War Farms Race. You can listen and find the transcript on their website here.freakonomics.comHow the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War - FreakonomicsHow the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War - Freakonomics 073
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 01/12/2024I’m pretty sure I’m not a middle class woman of a certain age, but I am also pretty sure blaming others for your own egregious behavior is not a good PR strategy, nor does it meet basic ethical standards www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...theguardian.comOutrage as Gregg Wallace calls accusers ‘middle-class women of a certain age’BBC faces questions after revelations that it received complaints about MasterChef star over period of 12 years 020
Reposted by Shane HamiltonAndrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Enterprise and Society: the International Journal of Business History can now be here @entandsoc.bsky.social - please spread the word (and let's hope it does better in attracting followers than I have!) 01411
Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 20/11/2024UK “free” trade discussions raise the specter of chlorine-washed chicken. But how is UK poultry produced? Andrew Godley and I wrote a piece addressing the paradoxical standards that underly modern agrifood systems — we want fair, healthy, sustainable food, but … doi.org/10.1080/0007...doi.orgStructure and meaning in strategic paradoxes: Exploring historical context in the emergence of agrifood standardsThis paper uses a historical case study of the emergence of a set of agrifood standards to explore the historical development of strategic paradoxes. The paper demonstrates the value of historical ... 032
