This article examines industry dynamics and their influence on business-government
relations through a study of the UK aluminium industry, focusing on the changing role of its …

We present an historically informed case study of the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA),
during the 1950s, and 1960s, to illustrate the fundamental role it played in protecting the …

This article explores the complex nexus between firms, governments and financial
institutions in aluminium industry from a global perspective. In particular, it accounts the …

Long-term changes to political economy and social structures as well as growing
inequalities across and within generations were dominant features of British economic and …

This chapter aims to discuss how a historical approach can contribute to the study of
commodity mobility, showing the dialogue between history and social sciences with a focus …

Since the dawn of the 12th century, the progressive construction of a “commercial
capitalism”(Banaji, 2020) has given rise to complex systems of procurement, processing …

Since the mid-1970s, the US commodity futures exchanges have increasingly been the
focus of tight government regulation, which resulted in strong control by a specific agency …

The mining industry is essential to our modern way of life, yet it is often perceived as
outmoded and old-fashioned. However, over the last 250 years, the mining industry has …