Mary Yeager
Mary Yeager
Professor Emeritus
Email: yeager@ucla.edu, yeagerprof@gmail.com
Office: 7381 Bunche Hall
Phone: 310-825-3489
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Mary A. Yeager is professor emerita of business and economic history in the history department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her current research focuses on global capitalism, climate change, and the linkages between gender, feminism, and business, with particular attention to gender differences/similarities across a range of industries and cultures. Yeager served as president of the joint European/American Business History Conference in Miami 2015.
Among her most significant publications are: “Margins and Centres: Gender and Feminism in Business History“ (Special Issue in BUSINESS HISTORY, DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2022.2125957); “Gender, Race, and Entrepreneurship,“ (THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO THE MAKERS OF GLOBAL BUSINESS, 1st edition, Teresa da Silva Lopes, Christina Lubinski, Heidi J.S. Tworek, editors (July 2019), 69-92); BHC-EBHA Presidential Address, “WOMEN CHANGE EVERYTHING,” (ENTERPRISE & SOCIETY: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUSINESS HISTORY, Volume 16 , Issue 4 (December 2015), 744 – 769); “Mavericks and Mavens of Business History: Miriam Beard and Henrietta Larson,” (ENTERPRISE & SOCIETY: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUSINESS HISTORY, Vol. 2, Issue 4 (December 2001), 687-768); Mary A. Yeager, ed., WOMEN IN BUSINESS, 3 vols. (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: 1999), including the article “Will there Ever Be a Feminist Business History?”; COMPETITION AND REGULATION: THE DYNAMICS OF OLIGOPOLY IN THE MEAT PACKING INDUSTRY, 1870-1920 (Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, 1981, 1-296).
Current projects include a forthcoming, commissioned contribution, “The Untenable Injustice of Climate Change”, for Routledge’s BUSINESS HISTORY AND CLIMATE CHANGE, a longer book project about the first tenured woman at Harvard Business School, “In the Shadow of the Big Boys,” and a forthcoming commissioned article, “Birkenstock Identities”.
Publications
- Competition and Regulation: The Dynamics of Oligopoly in the Meat Packing Industry, 1870-1920. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, 1981. (1-296)
- “Mavericks and Mavens of Business History: Miriam Beard and Henrietta Larson,” Enterprise & Society, vol. 2, no. 4(Dec.2001), 687-768.
- The Protection Makers: A History of Protection in the International Steel Trade, work in progress.
- “Bureaucracy”, Encyclopedia of American Economic History, Vol. 3, 895-926.
- Mary A. Yeager, ed. Women in Business, 3 vols., The International Library of Critical Writings in Business History, Elgar Reference Collection (Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, 1999.
- Mary A. Yeager, “Will There Ever Be A Feminist Business History?”, in Mary A. Yeager, ed., Women in Business, v. 1, pp. 3-43.
- Mary Yeager Kujovich, “The Refrigerator Car and the Growth of the American Dressed Beef Industry,” Business History Review,, Vol. XLIV, No. 4 (Winter 1970), 460-482.
- “Trade Protection as an International Commodity: The Case of Steel, 1930-1980,” Journal of Economic History, XL(1)(March 1980), pp. 33-42.
Works in Progress
- “The Protection Makers: Steel and the State in Latin America and the United States” (book length manuscript, comparing the role of government in the industrial development of Mexico, Brazil and the United States.)
