Capitalism's hidden worlds

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"This is a book in the history of business. It is about illicit forms of capitalistic enterprise, from the nineteenth century to the present and wide-ranging geographically"--

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Full title :Capitalism's hidden worlds / edited by Kenneth Lipartito and Lisa Jacobson.

Summary

"This is a book in the history of business. It is about illicit forms of capitalistic enterprise, from the nineteenth century to the present and wide-ranging geographically"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Pennsylvania Press
Place of Publication:Philadelphia
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020

Notes

Six of the essays in this collection are revised versions of papers presented at a 2017 conference, "Hidden capitalism : below, beneath, and beyond the market" held at the Hagley Library in Wilmington, Delaware -- Preface.

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 283 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780812251814, 0812251814
oclc:on1111650526
LC Classification:HB501
Dewey Decimal:330

Mapping the shadowlands of capitalism / Kenneth Lipartito and Lisa Jacobson -- Lifting the veil of money : what economic indicators hide / Eli Cook -- Accounting for reproductive labor : feminist economists and the construction of social knowledge on rural women in the global South / Eileen Boris -- The loose cotton economy of the New Orleans waterfront in the late nineteenth century / Bruce E. Baker -- Jim Crow's cut : white supremacy and the destruction of black capital in the forests of the Deep South / Owen James Hyman -- In the shadow of incorporation : hidden economies of the Hispano borderlands, 1890-1930 / Bryan W. Turo -- Capitalism's back pages : "immoral" advertising and invisible markets in Paris's mass press, 1880-1940 / Hannah Frydman -- Capitalism's black heart in wartime France / Kenneth Mouré -- The emergence of the offshore economy, 1914-1939 / James Hollis and Christopher McKenna -- Comrades in-between : transforming commercial practice in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1962 / Philip Scranton -- Hidden realms of private entrepreneurship : Soviet Jews and post-World War II Artels in the USSR / Anna Kushkova.

Subjects

Black market Black market -- History Capitalism Capitalism -- History History Informal sector (Economics) Informal sector (Economics) -- History Kapitalismus Marché noir -- Histoire Schattenwirtschaft Schwarzmarkt Secteur informel (Économie politique) -…