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. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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 MoureĢ -- 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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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