Mary, Mary, quite contrary

Phipps, Simone T. A.

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“…Through reassembling a microhistory of his time in service to the federal government, we observed how Hopkins became a significant historical figure in plain view for MOS especially for how his role in managing crises is particularly helpful in advancing new ideas about modern management; our future research intends to flesh out Hopkins' work as a proto-crisis manager. We see our contribution of Hopkins as adding to the work others have done to pluralize the evolution of management through surfacing and detailing the place of marginalized individuals in our discipline's knowledge (Gibson et al, 2013;Phipps, 2011;Williams, 2022). Finally, we do wish to offer a final comment on Hopkins.…”

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Recovering the neglected importance of Harry Hopkins’ role in the New Deal: insights for management and organization studies

Deal,

MacIsaac,

Mills

et al. 2023

JMH

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to revisit the potential of the New Deal as a research context in management and organization studies and, in doing so, forward the role one of its chief architects, Harry Hopkins, played in managing the economic crisis. The exploration takes us to multiple layers that work together to form context around Hopkins including the Great Depression, the Roosevelt Administration, and ultimately, the New Deal. By raising Harry Hopkins as an exemplar of historical-narrative exclusion, the authors can advance the understanding of his role in the New Deal and how his actions produced early insights about management (e.g. modern crisis management). Design/methodology/approach The paper experiments with the methodological assemblage of ANTi-History and microhistorical analysis that the authors call “ANTi-Microhistory” to examine the life narrative of Harry Hopkins, his early association with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and later, the New Deal. To accomplish this, the authors undertake a programme of archival research (e.g. the digital repository of The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum) and assess various materials (e.g. speeches, biographies and memoirs) from across multiple spaces. Findings The findings suggest Harry Hopkins to be a much more powerful actor in mobilizing New Deal policies and their effect on early management thought than what was previously accepted. In the process, the authors found that because of durable associations with Roosevelt, key policy architects of the same ilk as Harry Hopkins (e.g. Frances Perkins, Henry Wallace, Lewis Douglas, and others) and their contributions have been marginalized. This finding illustrates the significant potential of little-known historical figures and how they might shed new insight on the development of the field and management practice. Originality/value The aim is to demonstrate the potential of engaging historical research in management with the individual – Harry Hopkins – as a unit of analysis. By engaging historical research on the individual – be it well-known or obscure figures of the past – the authors are considering how they contribute to the understanding of phenomena (e.g. New Deal, Progressivism or Keynesian economics). The authors build on research that brings to focus forgotten people, communities and ideas in management studies but go further in advocating for space in the research to consider the scholarly potential of the individual.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recovering the neglected importance of Harry Hopkins’ role in the New Deal: insights for management and organization studies

Deal,

MacIsaac,

Mills

et al. 2023

JMH

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“…Drawing on feminist theory, they go on to argue for an approach to the past that speaks 'in the name of women; of women's experiences, subjectivities and sexualities, claiming "a language of our own" and "a history of our own"' (p. 283). An echo of this approach can be found in Phipps (2011) who, publishing in JMH, sought to recover women's voice in a 'male dominated field' (p. 270). Phipps own contribution to this focus was to encourage a revisiting of the impact of Mary Parker Follet and Mary Barnett Gilson on the field of management and business studies.…”

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Feminist frustrations: The enduring neglect of a women’s business history and the opportunity for radical change

Mills

Williams

2021

Business History

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In response to a special call of 'bringing gender and feminism from the periphery to the centre of business history' , the authors undertake an in-depth appraisal of Business History's own record, as a key signifier of the field. The scope includes articles and reviews published between 2000 and 2020 and find 17 articles out of 918 (1.85%) and 99 reviews out of 2,217 (4.46%), with a downward trend from 2010 to 2020. To start, the authors engage with a critical question as to the definition of the field itself and explore what those internal to the journal have had to say about its definition. The authors then take a critical look at how women have been socially constructed as (a) historical actors, as (b) gendered roles and as (c) authors of history. To understand what has been included and neglected, the authors investigate and reveal clues as to the barriers and possible entry points.

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“…For example, prominent histories of management thought (e.g. Wren, 1972) have long been critiqued for an overfocus on white male theorists (Nkomo, 1992), which, simultaneously leads to the near exclusion of female and black theorists from their accounts (Graham, 1996;Nkomo, 1992;Phipps, 2011;Prieto and Phipps, 2016;Williams and Mills, 2017). In the process, references to historical accuracy tend to legitimize accounts through obsessive evocations of ultimate truth, accuracy and rigor (Cal as and Smircich, 1996).…”

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Intersectionality as a matter of time

Hendricks

Deal

Mills

et al. 2020

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to draw attention to the heuristic value of intersectionality by historicizing it as a framework appropriate for the use of studying discrimination and discriminatory practices in organizations over time.Design/methodology/approachUtilizing a fusion between amodernist historiography vis-à-vis the nascent ANTi-History approach and intersectional complexity, the authors draw upon historical narratives from archival materials British Airways to empirically examine the utility of, and turn to, intersectional history in historical organization studies.FindingsAnalysis of archival materials and commissioned corporate histories revealed subjectivities of socially constructing historicized intersectional identities. This suggests that certain identities have been and continue to “enjoy” privilege while others are marginalized and/or neglected through serial interconnected historical meanings. These processes of privileging and marginalization rely on the way a nexus of meaning is configured.Research limitations/implicationsThe research process relied and is dependent on limited archival materials within a single organization (British Airways) and industry (civil aviation). The critique herein should not be misinterpreted as judgment of the airline itself as an exemplar of discriminatory practices but rather for its longevity as an ongoing concern; its rich, colonialist history within the United Kingdom and accessibility of data. Archival traces are housed within a semi-public corporate archive which means those traces available for study have been professional and rhetorically curated.Practical implicationsFrom the perspective of workplace diversity, our aim has been to reveal to diversity professionals and activists not only the role of history in shaping discrimination but also, in particular, to be alert to the processes whereby the production of knowledge of the past takes place. The authors hope also to have drawn attention to the power of organizations in the generation of discriminatory historical accounts and the need to further explore how such accounts are produced as knowledge of the past. Finally, the authors introduce the notion of “nexus of meaning” to suggest that in the complexity of intersectionality, the authors need to explore not only how people experience different and combined forms of discrimination but also how those experiences are shaped in a complex series of meaning that owe much to past experiences.Social implicationsThe research directs attention to the nexus of meaning that constitute intersecting identities.Originality/valueThe research attempts to historicize intersectionality as a qualitative framework worthy of consideration in management and organization studies. From the perspective of studying discrimination in organizational life, the aim of this paper is to bring forward the role history plays in shaping discrimination as well as the processes whereby the production of knowledge of the past takes place. Attention is also drawn to the power of organizations in the generation of discriminatory historical accounts and the need to further explore how such accounts are produced. This study introduces the nexus of meaning analytic that understands how the experiences of different and combined forms of discrimination are shaped by meanings of the past.

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Mary, Mary, quite contrary

Cited by 15 publications

References 26 publications

Recovering the neglected importance of Harry Hopkins’ role in the New Deal: insights for management and organization studies

Recovering the neglected importance of Harry Hopkins’ role in the New Deal: insights for management and organization studies

Feminist frustrations: The enduring neglect of a women’s business history and the opportunity for radical change

Intersectionality as a matter of time

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