The 2008 spring issue of Business History Review surveys the evolution of the international insurance industry. Sharon Ann Murphy explains the reasoning behind companies’ decisions to use life agents in her article, "Selecting Risks in an Anonymous World: The Agency System for Life Insurance in Antebellum America." In "Quill-Driving: British Life-Insurance Clerks and Occupational Mobility, 1800–1914," Timothy Alborn describes the changing work routines of British life-insurance clerks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and depicts their struggle for occupational mobility. Robin Pearson and Mikael Lönnborg examine the growth of the international insurance industry, and the efforts to regulate it, in their article, "Regulatory Regimes and Multinational Insurers before 1914." Finally, Jerònia Pons Pons analyzes the entrance, and eventual withdrawal, of American and British insurance companies in Spain, in "Multinational Enterprises and Institutional Regulation in the Life-Insurance Market in Spain, 1880–1935."