Capitalism's Hidden Worlds

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2020

Capitalism's Hidden Worlds

Edited by: Kenneth Lipartito and Lisa Jacobson

In the series Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812296693

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About this book

Capitalism's Hidden Worlds examines economic activities that occur in the concealed corners of the formal economy. Challenging common conceptions of capitalism as a system of transparent, open markets, essays reveal how capitalism depends upon, adapts to, and gains legitimacy from activities that occur outside the measured and the seen.

Author / Editor information

Kenneth Lipartito is Professor of History at Florida International University. Lisa Jacobson is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Reviews

"Capitalism's Hidden Worlds is a welcome contribution to the study of the history of capitalism. Capturing a wide range of topics—many illustrating the interpenetration of social, political, and regulatory regimes—and geography, the collection pushes the history of capitalism beyond its U.S.-centered focus."—Josh Lauer, University of New Hampshire

"In collecting essays that explore historical examples of economic activity overlooked, concealed, or misunderstood, editors Kenneth Lipartito and Lisa Jacobson encourage us to rethink our understanding of how markets have worked historically and how we conceptualize capitalism more generally."—James Taylor, Lancaster University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Roger Horowitz Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Mapping the Shadowlands of Capitalism Kenneth Lipartito and Lisa Jacobson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. MEASURING AND UNVEILING MARKETS
Chapter 1. Lifting the Veil of Money: What Economic Indicators Hide Eli Cook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter 2. Accounting for Reproductive Labor: Feminist Economists and the Construction of Social Knowledge on Rural Women in the Global South Eileen Boris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
PART II. WORKING THE MARGINS
Chapter 3. The Loose Cotton Economy of the New Orleans Waterfront in the Late Nineteenth Century Bruce E. Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Chapter 4. Jim Crow’s Cut: White Supremacy and the Destruction of Black Capital in the Forests of the Deep South Owen James Hyman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Chapter 5. In the Shadow of Incorporation: Hidden Economies of the Hispano Borderlands, 1890–1930 Bryan W. Turo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
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 Hannah Frydman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Chapter 7. Capitalism’s Black Heart in Wartime France Kenneth Mouré Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Chapter 8. The Emergence of the Offshore Economy, 1914–1939 James Hollis and Christopher McKenna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
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 Philip Scranton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Chapter 10. Hidden Realms of Private Entrepreneurship: Soviet Jews and Post–World War II Artels in the USSR Anna Kushkova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Other: 11 illus.
Keywords: American History; Economics; Business; European History; World History; Business

eBook

Published: December 6, 2019
ISBN: 9780812296693