Staff profile

• American cast-iron stoves and stovemaking
• History of technology, esp. 19th-century metalworking
• Labour and business in U.S. history

Authored book

• Harris, H. (2000). Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.2277/0521584353
• Harris, H. (1982). The Right to Manage: Industrial Relations Policies of American Business in the 1940s. University of Wisconsin Press

Chapter in book

• Harris, H. (2003). Industrial paternalism and welfare capitalism: 'where's the beef?' or 'show me the money!'. In R. Baritono, D. Frezza, A. Lorini, M. Vaudagna, & E. Vezzosi (Eds.), Public and private in American history : state, family, subjectivity in the twentieth century (459-482). Otto Editore
• Harris, H. (2002). Industrial history: the state of the art. In M. Stokes (Ed.), The state of U.S. history (179-197). Berg
• Harris, H. (2002). The spatial mobility of ordinary people: a civil-war era case. In C. A. V. Minnen, & S. Hilton (Eds.), Nation on the move : mobility in U.S. history (111-128). Vrije Universiteit Press
• Harris, H. (1999). War in the social order: the Great War and the liberalization of American Quakerism. In D. K. Adams, & C. A. V. Minnen (Eds.), Religious and secular reform in America : ideas, beliefs, and social change (179-203). Edinburgh University Press
• Harris, H. (1993). Industrial democracy and liberal capitalism, ca. 1890-1920. In N. Lichtenstein, & H. Harris (Eds.), Industrial democracy : the ambiguous promise (43-66). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.2277/0521431212
• Harris, H. (1991). Getting it together: the Metal Manufacturers' Association of Philadelphia, ca. 1990-1930. In S. Jacoby (Ed.), Masters to managers : historical and comparative perspectives on American employers (111-131). Columbia University Press
• Harris, H. (1991). Employers' collective action in the open-shop era: the Metal Manufacturers' Association of Philadelphia, c. 1903-1933. In S. Tolliday, & J. Zeitlin (Eds.), The power to manage? employers and industrial relations in comparative-historical perspective (117-146). Routledge
• Harris, H. (1985). The snares of liberalism? Politicians, bureaucrats, and the shaping of federal labour relations policy, ca. 1915-1947. In S. Tolliday, & J. Zeitlin (Eds.), Shop floor bargaining and the state : historical and comparative perspectives (148-191). Cambridge University Press

Journal Article

• Harris, H. (2012). Coping with competition: cooperation and collusion in the US stove industry, c.1870-1930. Business History Review, 86(4), 657-692. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007680512001808
• Harris, H. J. (2009). 'The Stove Trade Needs Change Continually': Designing the First Mass-Market Consumer Durable, ca. 1810-1930. Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture, 43(4), 365-406. https://doi.org/10.1086/648372
• Harris, H. J. (2008). Conquering winter: U.S. consumers and the cast-iron stove. Building Research and Information, 36(4), 337-350. https://doi.org/10.1080/09613210802117411
• Harris, H. J. (2008). Inventing the U.S. stove industry, c. 1815-1875: making and selling the first universal consumer durable. Business History Review, 82(4), 701-733. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007680500063170
• Harris, H. J. (2007). Between convergence and exceptionalism: Americans and the British model of labor relations, c. 1867-1920. Labor History, 48(2), 141-173. https://doi.org/10.1080/00236560701224726
• Harris, H. (2000). The rocky road to mass production: change and continuity in the US foundry industry, 1890-1940. Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History, 1(2), 391-437. https://doi.org/10.1093/es/1.2.391
• Harris, H. J. (1999). Interwar American histories: left, right, and wrong. Historical Journal, 42(1), 293-308. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x98008401
• Harris, H. (1993). Durable goods: steelworkers in America after three decades. Labor History, 34(4), 479-489. https://doi.org/10.1080/00236569300890291
• Harris, H. (1989). The Master Craftsman. Labor History, 30(1), 93-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/00236568900890041