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A World History of Rubber : Empire, Industry, and the Everyday.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wiley,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Timeline
- Global Rubber and Tire Companies
- Introduction: Why Rubber?
- Chapter 1 Race, Migration, and Labor
- "Wild Rubber" and Early Industry
- "Wild Rubber" and Empire
- Plantations' Progress: "Rationality and Efficiency"
- Plantation Hierarchies
- Race and Industry in the United States and Europe
- READING
- Working and Living on the Mimot Plantation in Cambodia
- Notes
- Chapter 2 Women and Gender on Plantations and in Factories
- Gendering the Jungle and the Plantation
- Asian Women on Plantations.
- European Women and Racism
- The Colonizing Woman
- Gendered Production in the United States and Europe
- Rubber and Sex in Indochine
- READING
- Women Workers, Gender, and Beatings
- Notes
- Chapter 3 Demand and Everyday Consumption
- Everyday Consumption on Southeast Asian Plantations
- Class and Consumption in North America and Europe
- Race and Consumption in Europe and North America
- Gender and Consumption in Europe and North America
- Gendering Reproduction
- READING
- The Romance and Drama of the Rubber Industry, Harvey S. Firestone, Jr.
- Notes.
- Chapter 4 World Wars, Nationalism, and Imperialism
- World War I
- "See America First" on "Good Roads"
- Flying for the Nation
- Restricting Rubber in the Wake of War
- American Assertions: Herbert Hoover and US Trade
- Firestone and Friends
- Firestone in Liberia
- Germany: Colonies and Chemicals
- World War II and the US Scramble for Rubber
- Nazi Racism and Buna at Auschwitz
- Imperialism and Nationalism in the Wake of World War II
- READING
- Life, Work, and Death at Buna Monowitz
- Notes
- Chapter 5 Resistance and Independence
- Plantations and Resistance.
- Global Economic Crisis and Plantation Labor
- Success of the Smallholders
- Plantations under the Japanese
- Independence and Decolonization
- United Rubber Workers
- READING
- Describing Smallholders in the Dutch East Indies
- READING
- Explaining Indigenous Resistance
- Notes
- Conclusion: Forgetting and Remembering Rubber
- Suggested Readings
- Index
- EULA.