Capitalism's Hidden Worlds /

Capitalism's Hidden Worlds / / ed. by Kenneth Lipartito, Lisa Jacobson.

Observers see free markets, the relentless pursuit of profit, and the unremitting drive to commodify everything as capitalism's defining characteristics. These most visible economic features, however, obscure a range of other less evident, often unmeasured activities that occur on the margins a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
MitwirkendeR:
Baker, Bruce E.,
Boris, Eileen,
Cook, Eli,
Frydman, Hannah,
Hollis, James,
Horowitz, Roger,
Hyman, Owen James,
Jacobson, Lisa,
Kushkova, Anna,
Lipartito, Kenneth,
McKenna, Christopher,
Mouré, Kenneth,
Scranton, Philip,
Turo, Bryan W.,
HerausgeberIn:
Jacobson, Lisa,
Lipartito, Kenneth,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2019]
©2020
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 11 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Mapping the Shadowlands of Capitalism
  • PART I. MEASURING AND UNVEILING MARKETS
  • Chapter 1. Lifting the Veil of Money: What Economic Indicators Hide
  • Chapter 2. Accounting for Reproductive Labor: Feminist Economists and the Construction of Social Knowledge on Rural Women in the Global South
  • PART II. WORKING THE MARGINS
  • Chapter 3. The Loose Cotton Economy of the New Orleans Waterfront in the Late Nineteenth Century
  • Chapter 4. Jim Crow’s Cut: White Supremacy and the Destruction of Black Capital in the Forests of the Deep South
  • Chapter 5. In the Shadow of Incorporation: Hidden Economies of the Hispano Borderlands, 1890–1930
  • PART III. THE LICIT AND THE ILLICIT
  • Chapter 6. Capitalism’s Back Pages: “Immoral” Advertising and Invisible Markets in Paris’s Mass Press, 1880–1940
  • Chapter 7. Capitalism’s Black Heart in Wartime France
  • Chapter 8. The Emergence of the Offshore Economy, 1914–1939
  • PART IV. HIDDEN MARKET SPACES IN PLANNED ECONOMIES
  • Chapter 9. Comrades In-Between: Transforming Commercial Practice in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1962
  • Chapter 10. Hidden Realms of Private Entrepreneurship: Soviet Jews and Post–World War II Artels in the USSR
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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