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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an insightful, thought provoking ensemble of essays that explore the hidden economic forces, agents, and practices in the 19th and 20th century....
Capitalist’s Hidden World is a stimulating, insightful collection of much needed empirical studies concerning the shadow economy of the modern world. It contains a number of contributions that offer new perspectives, especially in the fields of global history and discussions on marginalized groups...[I]t is bound to make a big impact in the fields of social and economic history." -- Paul Franke * Comparativ *
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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 *
Table of ContentsPreface
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
