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Tsuguyoshi Ueno
Research Interests

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Specialized Fields Business and Labor History

American Immigration History

Research Projects
  1. The History of the Safety Movement and the Personnel Management in the Progressive Period.

  2. Environmental Business History

  3. Social History of Immigrant Labor in the Chicago Area.

  4. History of American Documentary Photography: The Transformation of Industrial Images between the World Wars.

Current Research My recent research has focused on the history of the "Safety First" movement from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s in the U.S. It is based on a wide range of historical materials (archival collections, company records, published documents, and trade journals), collected in the United States and Japan. My research also looks at the relationship and interaction of industrial accident prevention activities with other management and labor reform movements, such as personnel management. I have continued to work more broadly on US influence of "Safety First" on Japanese business in the early twentieth century.

This research has been carried out for about ten years, seven of which were supported by a major grant from Japanese government, and it has already generated a series of articles, including several refereed journal articles. All of my articles were written in Japanese, I have a plan to publish them in English.

I have been also interested in the methodological theme of combining business history with environmental history, which has resulted in some additional publications, including a chapter article of New Perspectives on America's Economic Past (published in 2003).



Publications
Chapter Articles of Books
  1. "Asbestos Problems from Environmental Business Historical Perspective." In The Affluent Society and the Environment, ed. Akimoto Eiichi and Ojio Kazuhito,243-66 (ch. 11). Kyoto: Minerva, 2006.

  2. "Green Business History: The Interaction between Business History, Environmental History, and Industrial Ecology." In New Perspectives on America's Economic Past, ed. Okada Yasuo and Suto Isao, 159-89 (Ch. 7). Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2003.

Selected Articles
  1. "Americanization and Factory Discipline: Unskilled Immigrant Laborers in the U.S. Steel Industry, 1900-1916." Kansai Society for the Study of American History, American History Review 18 (2000): 1-31.

  2. "Industrial Efficiency through Committee Management Systems: The Evolution of the International Harvester's Industrial Council Plan." Kyoto Sangyo University, Economics and Business Administration Review 35 (June 2001): 56-117.

  3. "Arthur H. Young and His Times: The Story of a Steelworker, 1882-1905." Economics and Business Administration Review 33 (March 1999): 201-22.

  4. "The Spreading of the Gospel of Safety: The Safety Movement and Immigrants in the Progressive Period." Japanese Association for American Studies, American Review 31 (March 1997): 19-40. Summary

  5. "Safety Movement and Industrial Relations: The Early Phases of the Personnel Management Movement in America, 1908-1915." Japan Business History Review 31 (January 1997): 1-31. Summary

  6. "Industrial Safety Through Statistics: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Safety Men, 1910-1917." Chuo University, Journal of Commerce 36 (March 1995): 109-46.

  7. "Safety Men and the Rise of Personnel Management in the Progressive Period, 1905-1923." Memoirs of Hokkaido Joho University 6 (March 1995): 211-29.

  8. "Safety Men" and the 20th-Century Beginnings of the Safety Movement." Memoirs of Hokkaido Joho University 6 (September 1994): 17-36.

  9. "Safety Movement, Employment Management, and Labor: Illinois Steel Company, 1907-1916." Japan Business History Review 29, no. 1 (April 1994): 1-30.  Summary

Encyclopedia and Other Shorter Articles
  1. "Welfare Capitalism." In Business History in the World: Basic Facts and Concepts, ed. Business History Society of Japan, 84-85. Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 2005.

  2. "Green Business History Bibliography." Kyoto Management Review 4 (2003): 109-14.

  3. "Recollections of the Business Historical Scholarship in Japan: U.S. Business and Labor History, 1993." Japan Business History Review 30 (April 1995): 87-96.

Other Essays

(mainly on the history of American photography and on my NGO activities)

  1. "Walking along the Aota River: Learning History for the Solution of Environmental Problems." Report of the Machida Information Center for People's Action, no. 15 (30 November 2001): 2.

  2. "Myths and Social Science: Learning from John Luskin's Economics." Memoirs of Hokkaido Joho University 8 (September 1996): 63-72.

  3. "Traditional Medicine in Bangladesh: A Historical Perspective." Japan Overseas Christian Medial Cooperative Service, Live Together, no. 268 (10 March 1996): 8.

  4. "Looking at History." In Descendants of Robinson: Memoirs in celebration of Professor Yamashita Yukio, 35-39. Sapporo: Privately Printed, 1995.

  5. "Research Tour in Cambodia: As a Volunteer Photographer." Japan Overseas Christian Medial Cooperative Service, JOCS Forum, no. 14 (April 1995): 107-17.

  6. A series of small essays on Cambodia in Dosanko, organ of the Hokkaido Organization for Primary Health Care, 1994-1995.

  7. "Cambodia's Economy and Society in Its Historical Settings: An NGO Photographer's View (photo-essay), I &II." Memoirs of Hokkaido Joho University 5 (March 1994): 160-80; 6 (September 1994): 158-69.

  8. "Photo essay: Cambodia." Japan Overseas Christian Medial Cooperative Service, Live Together, no. 241 (10 June 1993): 12-13.

  9. "Moholy-Nagy and the New Bauhaus in Chicago." Asahi Camera (June 1990): 118-19; (July 1990): 126-27. (Asahi Camera is a major commercial magazine of photography in Japan)

  10. "Lewis W. Hine: Photography as a Historical Testimony." Asahi Camera (November 1990): 127.

  11. "The Forgotten Ones: Milton Rogovin's Social Photography." Asahi Camera (September 1990): 118.

  12. "Wallace Kirkland's Photographs and Hull-House." Asahi Camera (July 1990): 130.

  13. "George Barnard: Photography Exhibition in Chicago." Asahi Camera (May 1990): 134.


Membership of Academic Societies Business History Society of Japan

The Socio-Economic History Society

Japanese Association for American Studies

American Economic History Society of Japan

The Japanese Asociation for American History

Kansai Society for the Study of American History

Society fot eh Study of Social Policy

The Historical Science Society of Japan


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