Robert Fitzgerald is Professor of Business History and International Management at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has researched and written on the historical, international and comparative analysis of business; labour history and management; marketing; multinational enterprise; and the Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and British economies. He is the author of The Rise of the Global Company: Multinationals and the Making of the Modern World, and he is currently researching the historical role of labour management in the formation of business organization, and Japanese small business.
Original review of British Labour Management and Industrial Welfare: ‘The book is packed with detailed information. It is well worth reading by those of us with teaching or research interests in the multi-faceted history of social welfare.’ A. Russell, Urban History Yearbook, Vol 16 (1989).