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Working in the Gig Economy: An Overview of a Rising Industry

June 21, 2024

Business Reference has a new research guide, "Gig Economy: A Research Guide." Take a look at the gig economy of today and introduce yourself to some of the Library's resources on the topic!

Posted in: Business, Business Reference Guides

Clocking In, Clocking Out

June 14, 2024

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

Clocking in? Punching out? Where did these come from? Read this post for more information on time recording and tabulating machines.

Posted in: Business

the magazine masthead features Neptune in a shell being pulled over the ocean by two sea horses with three mermaids in the water draped over the shell the title The shipping World and the Herald of Commerce surrounds the figures edited by Major Jones cost was sixpence

The Shipping World: 1940 and the War

May 29, 2024

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

This is the second of a two part series on Shipping World, looking specifically at issues from 1940, which provide an interesting vantage point to look at the Second World War and find information on British shipping of the time.

Posted in: Business, Transportation

The Shipping World: The Beginning

May 18, 2024

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

This is the first of two posts about the publication Shipping World and Herald of Commerce; a great resource for the history of shipping and shipbuilding. See what the earliest issues from 1883 and 1884 can offer!

Posted in: Business, Transportation

two men stand on the ices holding ice saws propped on the ground with cut marks in the ice where the blocks of ice were to be cut; one man pushes a rectangular section that is pushed slightly out of place ready to be harvested

Ice Cold: The Business of Ice

April 30, 2024

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

The ice keeping your beverage cold has a fascinating history that includes ice harvesting, war contracts, artificial ice machines, a financial panic, and not one, but two Ice Kings.

Posted in: Business

Map of the US Caption reads: Figure 25. Relief traffic map of the recommended interregional system. The height of the traffic bands indicates approximately the average density of traffic to be expected at all points on the system. The mounting spires at the principal cities picture the great increases of traffic to be expected on sections of the routes traversing the cities.

A Transportation Roundup to Introduce a New Business Guide

April 19, 2024

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

If you are doing any research related to the history of transportation, the Library of Congress has many resources that you might need.

Posted in: Business, Transportation

man in a suit with a pointer stands to the left of a chart with the title UNITED STATES BUSINESS POPULATION with Thousands of Concerns along one axis and the years along the other with lines for New Enterprises, Total Discontinued, Total Listed Concerns

To Create a Temporary National Economic Committee

March 6, 2024

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

The Temporary National Economic Committee was formed to look at concentration in American industry and produced a number of reports that show America business and industry in the first decades of the 20th century.

Posted in: Business