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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.
List of contents
Preface
Roger Horowitz
Introduction: Mapping the Shadowlands of Capitalism
Kenneth Lipartito and Lisa Jacobson
Part I. Measuring and Unveiling Markets
Chapter 1.
Lifting the Veil of Money: What Economic Indicators Hide
Eli Cook
Chapter 2. Accounting for Reproductive Labor: Feminist Economists and the Construction of Social Knowledge on Rural Women in the Global South
Eileen Boris
Part II. Working the Margins
Chapter 3. The Loose Cotton Economy of the New Orleans Waterfront in the Late Nineteenth Century
Bruce E. Baker
Chapter 4. Jim Crow's Cut: White Supremacy and the Destruction of Black Capital in the Forests of the Deep South
Owen James Hyman
Chapter 5. In the Shadow of Incorporation: Hidden Economies of the Hispano Borderlands, 1890-1930
Bryan W. Turo
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
Chapter 7. Capitalism's Black Heart in Wartime France
Kenneth Mouré
Chapter 8. The Emergence of the Offshore Economy, 1914-1939
James Hollis and Christopher McKenna
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
Chapter 10. Hidden Realms of Private Entrepreneurship: Soviet Jews and Post-World War II Artels in the USSR
Anna Kushkova
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
About the author
Edited by Kenneth Lipartito and Lisa Jacobson
Summary
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.
