Market and Violence : : The Functioning of Capitalism in History / / Heide Gerstenberger.
A sweeping history of capitalist violence by one of the preeminent theorists of capitalist society working today.
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| Superior document: | Historical Materialism Book Series ; Volume 258 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv,, 2023. ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English German |
| Series: | Historical materialism book series ;
Volume 258. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 742 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preliminary Observations to Market and Violence
- Chapter 1. On Direct Violence in Pitiless Conditions
- Chapter 2. Armed World Trade
- Robbery and Regulations
- Overseas Trade Monopolies
- Just Another Commodity
- First Theoretical Remark: On Merchants and Capitalists
- Chapter 3. Historical Preconditions for Capitalist Accumulation
- Competition Set Free
- Commercial Freedom Ashore
- Commercial Freedom on the High Seas
- The Pacification of Transport Routes
- The Fight against Highway Robbery
- Fighting Piracy
- The Capital of Industrial Capitalism
- From Merchant Capital to the Trading Capital of Industrial Capitalism
- The Liberation of Wage Labour from Coercive Political Power
- Wage Labour in Germany and Particularly in Prussia
- Wage Labour in France
- Wage Labour in England
- Servitude, Slavery, Free and Unfree Wage Labour in the United States
- Indenture (Temporary Servitude)
- Slavery
- The Living and Working Conditions of Slaves
- Slavery and Profit
- Unfree Wage Labour in the South
- Free Wage Labour Beyond the Former Slave States
- Second Theoretical Remark: The Political Economy of Capitalist Labour
- Chapter 4. Appropriation Abroad
- Forced Trade
- Territorial Sovereignty
- Fiscal Exploitation
- For Example: The Conquest of Financial Sovereignty in India
- Tributes, Poll Taxes and Labour Services
- For Example: Caoutchouc instead of Money
- Limits to Taxation
- Settlement and Expulsion
- Excursus: Justifications
- Practices of Settlement
- Spanish America
- Australia
- North America: United States of America
- Algeria
- Land Grabbing through Colonisation: A Summary
- Teaching a Lesson
- Decisions on Site
- International Experts in Pacification
- Patterns of Recruitment
- With Drill and the Maxim.
- Making Indigenous People into 'Natives'
- Third Theoretical Remark: Capitalist Colonial Rule
- Labour under Coercive Colonial Power
- Slavery and Ersatz Slavery
- Domestic Slavery
- Ersatz Slavery
- Debt Bondage
- Contractual Debt Bondage (Coolie-Labour)
- For Example: The Plantation Economy on the East Coast of Sumatra
- For Example: Production in the Tea Gardens of Assam
- Coolies Were Not Slaves
- For Example: Lascars
- Forced Labour as a Development Strategy
- For Example: Military Logic and State Violence in German South West Africa
- For Example: Forced Labour in the Congo, International Criticism and a Continuing Practice
- For Example: Private Enterprises in the Caoutchouc Belt (Moyen Congo)
- Unfree Wage Labour
- For Example: German South West Africa
- For Example: Compounds
- Peasant Workers: Specific Transformations
- For Example: India
- Fourth Theoretical Remark: Colonial State Power
- The Colonial Order
- The Colonial Specificity of the Monopoly of Violence
- The Specificity of Colonial Exploitation
- The Big Difference
- Chapter 5. The World at War
- The Burdens of the Great War on African Shoulders
- The War of the Others
- Chapter 6. The Domestication of Industrial Capitalism in the Metropolitan Capitalist States
- England
- United States of America
- France
- Germany
- The Brutalisation of the Regime of Appropriation
- The National Socialist Labour Regime
- Disciplining through Terror
- Preparations for the Big Robbery
- Calculation and Violence
- Forced Recruitment
- The Economic Exploitation of Soviet Prisoners of War and 'Eastern Workers'
- The Economic Exploitation of Concentration Camp Inmates
- Not for the Eyes of the World
- Fifth Theoretical Remark: The Functioning of Domesticated Capitalism and Its Vulnerability.
- Chapter 7. Domesticated Capitalism in Globalised Competition
- Preconditions of Globalisation
- Decisions
- The Political End to the 'Trente Glorieuses'
- Chapter 8. Market and Violence in Globalised Capitalism
- Sixth Theoretical Remark: Unbounded Exploitation
- Forced Sex Work
- Basic Patterns of Labour Exploitation in Globalised Capitalism
- The Boundless Exploitation of 'Foreigners'
- Domestics
- Day Labourers
- Labour Conditions Not Covered by Collective Agreements
- Construction Workers in Qatar and Elsewhere
- The Snakeheads' Hostages
- Seventh Theoretical Remark: States and Their Margins
- Unbounded Exploitation 'Offshore'
- Flags of Convenience
- Export Processing Zones (EPZs)
- Representatives of Workers' Interests - an Endangered Species
- Unbounded 'Inshore' Exploitation in Non-metropolitan Capitalist Countries
- Child Labour and Child Slavery
- Eighth Theoretical Remark: Class Analysis?
- The Political Geography of Poison
- Poison in Industrial Production
- Poison in Agriculture
- Toxic Waste
- Unbounding the World of Commodities
- The Human Body as a Supplier of Commodities
- Trafficking in Hair
- Trafficking in Organs
- Commercialised Force of Arms
- Conflict Diamonds
- Private Military Companies
- Physical Nature, Production and Violence
- Land Grabbing
- Raw Materials of Violence
- For Example: Oil Exploitation in Nigeria
- Ninth Theoretical Remark: Post-Colonial States as a Theoretical Challenge
- On the New Political Economy of Violent Criminality
- Piracy
- Drug Trafficking
- Smuggling of Human Beings
- Tenth Theoretical Remark: Violent Criminality in Global Capitalism
- 3 September 2020: Postscript to Chapters 7 and 8
- Concluding Remarks on Market and Violence
- Postscript
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Author Index.